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HI 102 part of midterm
pages 329-333
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10/13/2011

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tommies
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a nickname for British Soldiers
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Paul von Hindenburg and Erich von Ludendorff
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two generals who became supreme commanders of all Central Power forces
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Russian Revolution
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in March 1917, when mutinous soldiers forced the czar to abdicate, and a Provisional Government was established
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Vladimir Lenin
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Communist revolutionaries were led by him, he overthrew the Provisional Government un the Bolshevik Revolution and established a Communist dictatorship in Russia
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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Lenin took Russia out of the war by signing the ____ with the Central Powers and surrendering much land and resources to Germany
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T.E. Lawrence
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a British colonel led Arab revolts against Turkish rule in the Arabian Peninsula
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Edmund Allenby
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British and Austrialian troops under this General captured Jerusalem in December 1917
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Gallipoli Campaign
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the largest British offensive in the East
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Winston Churchill
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England's First Lord of the Admiralty
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submarine
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Germany had a new weapon of war called the U-boat
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Lusitania
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one of the first victims of submarine warfare was the British luxury liner
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Battle of Jutland
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the German fleet clashed with the British Royal Navy, in the North Sea west of Denmark
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aces
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pilots were called this if they shot down at least 5 pilots in enemy aircraft
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Manfred von Richthofen
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One of the most famous aces of World War I
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Eddit Rickenbacker
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destroyed 26 enemy aircrafts
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Zimmermann Note
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proposed that Mexico and Germany form an alliance if the US entered the war
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Woodrow Wilson
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US President declared that "The world must be made safe for democracy"
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"Big Bertha"
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Germans used one of their famous longe-range guns to bombard Paris from 75 miles away
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John J. ("Blackjack") Pershing
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a general who commmanded the American Expeditionary Force which arrived in France at the rate of 300,000 men a month
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doughboys
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Large numbers of American soldiers
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Ferinand Foch
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the Allies armies under the supreme command of ______ began driving the Germans back
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Weimar Republic
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a representative government was established
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Armistice Day
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now called Veterans Day, celebration throughout Europe and America that the war was over
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