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36 Cards in this Set
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Franz Ferdinand
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The heir to the Austro Hungarian throne, visited Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital
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Gavrilo Princip
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Serbian nationalist who stepped out of the crowd. He fired two shots, killing the archduke and his wife, Sophie
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Allied Powers
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WWI alliance that included Britain, France, Russia, and later the United States, and that fought against the Central Powers
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Central Powers
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WWI alliance that included Austria Hungary, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
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First Battle of the Marne
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WWI battle in which the Allies stopped a German advance near the Marne River
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No-man's-land
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Strip of bombed territory that separated the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during World War I
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Trench warfare
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A 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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German Red Baron
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Edward Rickenbacker
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The top American ace who had 26 kills
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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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Robert Lansing
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he encouraged the trade of war materials with the Allies
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National Defense Act
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Military "preparedness" program established prior to U.S. entry into World War I that increased the size of the National Guard and the regular U.S. army
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Zimmerman Note
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Cable sent to Mexico by Germany's foreign secretary during World War I; proposed an alliance between the two countries
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Jeannette Rankin
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Representative of Montana was among the opposition.
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Selective Service Act
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Law that initially required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for the draft.
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William McAdoo
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He was secretary of treasury and Wilson't son-in-law. He declared that "Every person who refuses to subscribe... is a friend of Germany and is not entitled to be an American citizen.
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Food Administration
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World War I agency headed by Herbert Hoover; encouraged increased agricultural production and the conservation of existing food supplie
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Herbert Hoover
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Directed the Food Administration, and a prosperous mining engineer who had managed a food-relief campaign for war-stricken Belgium
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War Industries Board
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Agency led by Bernard Baruch during WWI; allocated scarce goods, established production priorities, and set prices on goods.
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Bernard Baruch
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Wall street investigator, had overall responsibility for allocating scarce materials, establishing production priorities, and setting prices.
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National War Labor Board
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Agency created during WWI to settle desputes between workers and employers.
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Stanton Blatch
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The daughter of suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, headed the Food Administration Speakers Dureau
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Juliette Gordon Low
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An active American volunteer.
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The Great Migration
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Mass migration of some 60,000 English people to the Americas in the 1600's
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Committee on Public Information
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Agency created in 1917 to increase public support for WWI
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Espionage Act
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Federal law that outlawed acts of treason during WWI
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Sedition Act
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Federal law enacted during WWI that made written criticism of the government a crime.
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Bolsheviks
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a group of radical Russian socialist, seized power.
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Battle of the Argonne Forest
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Successful Allied effort to push back German troops from a rail center in Sedan, France
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Fourteen Points
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a program for world peace
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League of Nation
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14th point established this and it was the hear of the program.
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Big Four
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Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, French premier Georges Clemenceau, and Italian prime minister Vittorio Orlando
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reparations
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payments to the Allies
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Treaty of Versailles
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Treaty ending WWI that required Germany to pay huge war repartitions and established the League of Nations.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
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He headed of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and Wilson's longtime enemy, led the reservation.
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