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Chapter 21
World War 1
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8th Grade
03/26/2009

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Trench Warfare
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type of fighting in which soldiers dig in and fire from opposite sides of a “no man’s land”
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Nationalism
Definition
pride in one’s nation or ethnic group
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Militarism
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glorification of the military
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Stalemate
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deadlock in which neither side can score a victory
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Allied Powers
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Britain France and Russia
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Central Powers
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Germany Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empire
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Allied Powers
Definition
who the United States fought
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Alliance system
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ensured that any conflict between two powers would quickly involve others
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The 1914 assassination
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Archduke Ferdinand sparked World War 1
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President Wilson
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When fighting began, he proclaimed “strict and impartial neutrality"
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Zimmerman Telegram
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Minister Arthur Zimmerman to Mexico;if Mexico joined the German cause, they would receive US territory
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Western Front
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area where French and British troops stopped the German advance
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U-boat
Definition
submarine
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Illiterate
Definition
unable to read and write
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Herbert Hoover
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chosen by President Wilson to head a new Food Administration as part of the war effort
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Eugene V. Debs
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a socialist who was jailed during the war for urging workers not to support it
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Jeannette Rankin
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was the first woman elected to congress
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Croix de Guerre
Definition
France’s highest military service medal
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Propaganda
Definition
one form is “Uncle Sam wants you”; a specific type of message presentation, aimed at serving an agenda
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Jane Adams
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founded the Women Peace Party of 1915
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Communism
Definition
system based on the idea that social classes and private property should be eliminated
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Vladimir Lenin
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leader of the Bolsheviks; intended to set Russia on the road to communism
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Convoy
Definition
large group of merchant vessels sailing together
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Armistice
Definition
halt in fighting allows peace talks to begin
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Belleau Wood
Definition
first major battle of war for the United States
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Kaiser
Definition
absolute monarch or Germany
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John J. Pershing
Definition
commander of American Expeditionary Force; led pursuit of Pancho Villa; insisted American soldiers fight in separate units under American command
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Treaty of Breast-Litovsk
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German-Russian peace agreement signed that transferred 30% Russia's territory to Germany
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Destroyers
Definition
military vessels escorted cargo ships
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Definition
powerful republican; senator who opposed U.S. membership in the League of Nations
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Self-determination
Definition
a group’s right to decide its own form of government
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Deport
Definition
send someone back to his or her own country
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Reparations
Definition
payments to cover war damages
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New Republic of Turkey
Definition
what the Ottoman empire was replaced by
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David Lloyd
Definition
prime Minister of Great Brittan
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League of Nations
Definition
Wilson’s main goals met by the Treaty of Versailles
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Czechoslovakia
Definition
country established by the break up of Austria-Hungary
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Big Four
Definition
made the decisions at the peace conference in Paris major
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Fourteen Points
Definition
Wilson's peace plan presented to the congress
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Germany
Definition
had anger at the treaty of Versailles that would later set the stage for another world war
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Yugoslavia
Definition
was made when Serbs joined with the Balkans following World War 1
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Wilson
Definition
at the end of his presidency, few realized that he had been crippled by a stroke
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Karl Marx
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believed that workers would untie and overthrow the working class; Vladimir Lenin embraced his theories
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Brittan and France
Definition
dictated the terms of the armistice that ended World War 1
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American Expeditionary Force
Definition
American troops in Europe during World War 1
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”Peace offensive”
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goal of Germany to defeat the Allies quickly and bring peace on German terms; Germany's series of March 1918 attacks
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David Lloyd
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Britain
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George Clemenceau
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France
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League of Nations
Definition
came from the Treaty of Versailles; international peace organization which would provide a place for countries to meet and settle disputes peacefully
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Big Four
Definition
Wilson and the prime ministers of the three top European Allies: George Clemenceau, David Lloyd, and Vittorio Orlando
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Self-determination
Definition
the right of a group to decide its own form of government
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Bolsheviks
Definition
rational fraction who seized the government
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Influenza
Definition
the flue
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Reparations
Definition
payments to cover war damages
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Points 1-5
Definition
dealt with the factors that led to the war
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Communism
Definition
economic and political system based on the idea that social classes and the right to private property should be eliminated
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Reds
Definition
communists
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Red Scare
Definition
fear of communist revolution
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Vittorio Orlando
Definition
Italy
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Point 14
Definition
according to Wilson, the most important and called for setting up an international organization, or association of nations to guarantee world peace
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The Fourteen Points
Definition
President Wilson's peace plan
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American Expeditionary Force
Definition
American troops in Europe
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
Definition
stepped down and fled to Holland
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Alvin York
Definition
poor uneducated farmer who fought in World War 1; became the most decorated soldier
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Points 6-13
Definition
dealt with specific territorial issues arising form the war
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