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Lusitania
British passenger boat with 128 Americans on board sunk by German U-Boats. It also secretly had ammunition in the hold; one of the reasons the US joins the war -
Powder keg
The tense, nationalistic feelings of the people in the Balkan region of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Serbia, Bosnia, etc.) gave the region the nickname of the "Powder Keg of Europe.” 1914 -
assassination of archduke francis ferdinand
june 28, 1914. a teenage Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as their motorcade maneuvered through the streets of Sarajevo -
Militarism Imperialism Nationalism
imperialism expanding your power outside of one's own borders; one of the MAIN causes of WWI
militarism Depending on one's military to determine foreign policy; needs constant escalation of armed forces; one of the MAIN causes of WWI
alliances mutual defensive treaty; one of the MAIN causes of WWI
nationalism uberpatriotism AND desire by common people to have own homeland; one of the MAIN causes of WWI -
“he kept us out of war”
the slogan used by the Woodrow Wilson campaign 1916 presidential election -
Zimmerman Note
Message proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico; one of the reasons the US joins the war -
Xenophobia
Intense dislike or fear of foreign people -
russian overthrow of czar
1917 Russian Revolution was not, as many people suppose, one well organised event in which Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power. -
general pershing and american expeditionary force
The American Expeditionary Forces consisted of the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command of General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I. -
Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution The Revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government. -
Selective Service
Act required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service -
War industry board
United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies -
Fourteen points
The fourteen points was a 8 January 1918 statement by United States President Woodrow Wilson that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. Europeans generally welcomed Wilson's intervention, but his main Allied colleagues (Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of the Great Britain, and Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy) were skeptical of the applicability of Wilsonian idealism.[1] -
Schenck V. United states
Schenck was the General Secretary of Philadelphia's Socialist Party. When men were getting drafted, he went out and hand out flyers convincing men that the draft is like "involuntary servitude" by the THIRTEENTH AMENDMENT (outlawed slavery). Also, the war was motivated by the capitalists. He urged "Do not submit to intimidation" and advised the men to petition for repeal the Conscription Act. Schenck was charged for violating the ESPIONAGE ACT by attempting to cause insubordination in the milita -
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influenza pandemic:
killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. 1918-1919 -
Espionage & Sedition Acts
could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort -
Great Migration
movement of hundreds of thousands of African American from the rural south into Northern cities -
Big-Four meet
Included Wilson (US), Clemenceau (France), Lloyd George (GB), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy). They set up the Treaty of Versailles -
red scare
promotion of fear of a potential rise of communism or radical leftism. In the United States, the First Red Scare was about worker (socialist) revolution and political radicalism. 1919-1920 -
Treaty of Versailles
the treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to repair war damages 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manufacture any weapons