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-sense of pride in one’s nation
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-building up military
- British know for navy
- France lost territory to germany 40 years ago, building up army
- germany building up navy and arm -
european country trying to claim land, controlling smaller nations in; africa, middle east, asia, india
British - middle east (oil), north africa (metals), india (spices and cotton)
France- north africa -
he tried to stay out of the war and didn't want to have anything to do with it.
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Jul 28, 1914 – Nov 11, 1918
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To make better use of daylight, we change our clocks during the summer months to move an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening.
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The British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans.
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Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning.
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a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office. That proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
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Two revolutions swept through Russia, ending centuries of imperial rule and setting into motion political and social changes that would lead to the formation of the Soviet Union. While the two revolutionary events took place within a few short months, social unrest in Russia had been simmering for decades.
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Authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.
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the expeditionary force of the United States Army during World War I. In France under the command of General John J. Pershing. During the United States campaigns in World War I it fought alongside the French Army, British Army, Canadian Army and Australian Army on the Western Front, against the German Empire.
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The law also empowered the president to nationalize certain private factories, and requisition storage facilities for military supplies. Private individuals and proprietors were entitled to be compensated for the fair market value of any property taken by the federal government pursuant to the act. U.S. district courts were vested with jurisdiction to resolve disputes when agreement on fair market value could not be reached.
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14 strategies that ensure national security and world peace
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It forbade the use of disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Those convicted under the act generally received sentences of imprisonment for five to 20 years.
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Ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had eliminated Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Also known as the Armistice of Compiègne from the place where it was signed
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Finland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia
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the most powerful people in the world meet
- negotiation that officially marks end of WWI -
ended state of war between germany and the allied
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international organization
- created to provide a forum for resolving international disputes
