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America, The Homefront and the Great War

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Triple Entente (Allied Powers)
Great Britain, France, Russia
Triple Alliance (Central Powers)
"Center" of Europe. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Sarajevo
City in Bosnia/Serbia where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Bosnia wanted their freedom from Austria-Hungary and the soon to be duke, Franz Ferdinand, declined because they would lose access to the Mediteranean
U-boat
Submarine created by the Germans to move under British blockade and destroy Allied boats
RMS Lusitania
A British ocean liner that was sunk by a German U-boat. Germans thought it was carrying British weapons when civilians were boarded. 1,198 civilians were killed including 128 Americans
Gore-McLemore Resolution (1916)
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Sussex Pledge
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Zimmermann Telegram
German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman had secretly proposed a German-Mexican alliance against the U.S. When the note was intercepted and published in March 1917, it caused an uproar that made some Americans more willing to enter the war.
Jeanette Rankin (MT)
Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States
Selective Service Act (1917)
The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft
"War to End All Wars"
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Doughboys
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Liberty Bonds
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War Industries Board
Set a precedent for the federal government to take a central role in economic planning in moments of crisis
Benard Baruch
Head of War Industries Board appointed by President Wilson
War Labor Board
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Billy Sunday
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"Liberty Cabbage"
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Ludlow Massacre
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Great Migration
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Women's Peace Party
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George Creel
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Committee on Public Information
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War Revenue Act (1917)
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Emma Goldman
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Espionage Act (1917)
made it a crime to interfere with the operations of the military to promote the success of its enemies and prohibited many forms of speech perceived as disloyal to the United States of America
Sedition Act (1918)
Continuation of Espionage Act of 1917
Roger Baldwin
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American Civil Liberties Union [ACLU]
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Schenck v U.S. (1919)
A supreme court decision that upheld the Espionage and Sedition Acts, reasoning that freedom of speech could be curtailed when it posed a "clear and present danger" to the nation.
Abrams v U.S. (1919)
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Wilsonianism
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"Big Four"
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Article 10
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"War-Guilt" clause
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League of Nations
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Fourteen Points
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"Irreconcilables"
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"Reservationists"
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self-determination
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