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POWDER KEG
The unstable European reagion that is the Balkans -
XENOPHOBIA
The anti-foreign feelings in europe -
FOURTEEN POINTS
Wilson's plan to approach the conflict in Europe -
MILITARISM, IMPERIALISM, NATIONALISM, ALLIANCE SYSTEM LEAD TO WAR
System of alliances that inadvertadley caused WW1 -
ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANCIS FERDINAND
Archduke was killed by serbian nationalist. Started WW1 -
LUSITANIA
British ship carrying american passenger sunk by germans -
“HE KEPT US OUT OF WAR”
Wilson's campaign message that he kept the US out of conflict. -
RED SCARE
Panic in the US on who was communist and who was not -
ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM
german telegram to mexico that annoyed us -
RUSSIAN OVERTHROW OF CZAR
Russians overthrew Czar, momentary republic -
GENERAL PERSHING AND AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE
the army that was deployed into europe -
SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT
Initiated the draft -
ESPIONAGE ACT
Act that made speaking against the war illegal -
WAR INDUSTRY BOARD CREATED
Section of the governement that was in charge of organizing the supplies for the army. -
INFLUENZA PANDEMIC
Epidemic that killed a third of the world population -
SEDITION ACT
extended espionage act to cover more stuff -
GREAT MIGRATION
The movment of Black Americans from the racist south to north -
BIG FOUR MEETS
The meetings before the treaty of versailles -
SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES
law determining the enforcment of espionage act -
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
Treaty that ended WW1