Alexys WWI
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Al3xysWomack on October 31, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What were the causes of WWI? | Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, & Alliance System |
| Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip stepped from the crowd and shot the heir to the Austrian throne, who was this heir? | Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| A barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire... | no man's land |
| Armies fought for mere yards of ground, continued for over three years... | trench warfare |
| A British liner off the southern coast of Ireland a U-boat sank on may 7, 1915... | Lusitania |
| A telegram for the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents... | Zimmermann note |
| Famous fighter pilot of WWI. Shot down 26 enemy planes | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| This required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service. | Selective Service Act |
| Original Allies... | Russia, Serbia, United Kingdom, France and Montenegro |
| Central powers... | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups.. | convoy system |
| American Expeditionary Force | the name given to the american military force that fought in World War I; about 2 million Americans went to France as members of this under General John J. Pershing |
| New Weapons... | Machine gun, tank, airplane. |
| During the fighting in the Meuse-argonne area, this great American War hero became famous. | Alvin York |
| A person who opposes warfare on moral grounds, points out that the Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill." | conscientious objector |
| Armistice | Truce |
| The main regulatory body | War Industries Board |
| A prosperous business man who establised and reorganized the War Industries Board... | Bernard M. Baruch |
| propoganda | ideas or info designed and spread to influence opinion |
| The head of the CPI was a former muck-raking journalist | George Creel |
| a person could be fined up to ten thousand dollars and sentenced to twenty years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusice about the governement or the war effort | Espionage and Sedition Acts |
| the large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of southern blacks to cities in the North | Great Migration |
| The speech Wilson presented as his plan for world peace... | Fourteen points speech |
| In the fall of 1918, the United States suffered a homefront crises when an international ______ affected about one-quarter of the U.S. population. killed as many as 30 million people world wide. | flu epidemic |
| The British prime minister | David Lloyd George |
| Established nine new nations -- including Poland, Czechoslovakia, and the kingdom that later became Yugoslavia-- and shifted the boundaries of other nations. | Treaty of Versaillles |
| This forced Germany to admit sole resposibility for starting WWI. | war-guilt clause |
| War damages amounting to $33 million to the Allies | Reparations |
| This French premier had lived through two German invasions of France and was determined to prevent future invasions. | Georges Clemenceau |
| ____ was the leader of Germany in World War I | Keiser Wilhelm |
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