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Militarism
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the glorification of military strength
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Franz Ferdinand
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heir to the austrohungarian throne
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Gavrilo Princip
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serbian nationalist
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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, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
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First Batte of the Marne
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all the allies pushed the German lines back some 40 miles.
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No--mans land
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strewn with barbed wire and land mines
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Trench warfare
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new type of fighting
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Battle of the Somme
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british forces suffered some 60,000 casualties in a single day
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Manfred von Richthofen
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known as the red baron
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Edward Rickenbacker
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had 26 kills
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Robert Lansing
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encouraged the trade of war materials with the allies
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Sussex pledge
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a renewal of an earlier promise not to sink liners without warning or without ensuring the passengers safety
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National Defense Act
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increased the numbers in the regular army from some 90,000 to about 175,000
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Zimmerman Note
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the cable proposed a Mexican alliance with Germany
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Jeannette Rankin
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Montana was among the opposition
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Selective Service Act
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may 18 1917
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John J. Pershing
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general commander
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Convoy system
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escorted by U.S. warships, merchant vessels transported troops, supplies, and volunteers
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William McAdoo
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secretary of the treasury
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Food administration
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most succesful federal war
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Herbert Hoover
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a prosperous mining engineer who had managed food-relief campaign for war-stricken Belgium
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War Industries Board
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coordinated by the governments central war agency
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Bernard Baruch
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director of war industries bond
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National War Labor Board
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president wilson established it
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Harriot Stanton Blatch
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daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Juliette Gordon Low
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active american volunteer
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Great Migration
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african americans from south to northern cities between 1915 and 1930
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Comittee of Public Information
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headed by George Creel
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Espionage Act
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silence opponents of the war
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Sedition Act
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outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to utter print write or publish any disployal
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Bolksheviks
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a group of radical russian socialists
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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americans suffered some 120,000 casualties
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Fourteen Points
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a program for world peace
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League of Nations
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the heart of the program
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Big Four
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wilson george clmeancea and orlando
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David Lloyd George
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british prime minister
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Georges Clemenceau
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French premier
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Vittorio Orlando
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Italian prime minister
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Treaty of Versailles
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took place in versailles just outside paris
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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head of the senate committee on foreign relations and wilsons longtime enemy
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