Flashcards: Chapter 5 Vocabulary
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SillyGirl_1212 on February 7, 2011
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Mr. Grasso's vocabulary for Chapter 5
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Eddie Rickenbacker | the American "ace of aces" |
| Convoy | a guard that accompanies and protects ships or troops |
| Belleau Wood | site of American victory in france in 1918 |
| Second Battle of the Marne | battle that was the turning point of the war |
| Alvin York | Tennessee-born soldier whose actions in the Argonne Forest made him an American hero |
| Armistice | an end to the fighting |
| Epidemic | out break of an contagious disease that spread rapidly and widely |
| Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's goals for peace after World War I |
| League of Nations | an organization set up after World War I to settle international conflicts |
| Treaty of Versailles | the 1919 treaty that ended World War I |
| Reparations | money that defeated nations pays for the destruction it cause in other countries |
| Great Migration | the movement of African American from the South to Northern cities between 1910-1920 |
| Red Scare | in 1919-1920 a fearful reaction that the Untied States was threatened by a Communist revolution |
| Palmer raids | raids carried out by federal agencies and police against radicals at the direction of U.S attorney-General A Mitchell Palmer |
| Central Powers | the World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungry, the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria |
| Allies | the World War I alliance with Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Serbia, and others |
| Nationalism | to have pride in and loyalty to a nation |
| Militarism | policy of making military power a primary goal of a nation |
| Trench Warfare | warfare in which soldiers dug into deep trenches across the battlefield |
| U-boat | German Submarine |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the United States during World war I |
| Zimmermann telegram | telegram telling the german ambassadors to ask Mexico to declare war on the United States |
| Communism | single-party political system in which the government controls and plans the economy with the goals of common ownership of all property |
| American Expeditionary Force | the American army that fought in Europe in World War I |
| General John J. Pershing | commander of American forces in Europe in world war I |
| War bonds | a low interest loan by civilians to the government meant to be repaid in a number of years |
| War Industries Board | managed buying and distributing of war materials; set goals for productions, ordered construction of new factories and with the presidents approval, set prices. |
| Committee on Public Information | government organization that produced propaganda to build support for the War |
| Espionage Act | 1917 law that set heavy fines and long prison terms for antiwar activities. |
| Sedation Act | 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government |