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30 Cards in this Set
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League of Nations |
Precursor of the United Nations |
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W.E.B. Dubois |
Founded NAACP, supported the war effort |
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General John Pershing |
Led the American Expeditionary Force |
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Boxers |
Secret group that fought against foreign powers in China |
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
His death started WW1 |
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Militarism |
Development of armed forces , and their uses as a tool of diplomacy |
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Pearl Harbor |
Japs bombed it in Hawaii, created in 1887 as a refueling station for US ships in the Pacific |
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Balkans |
Powder Keg of Europe |
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The Allies |
Great Britain, Russia, France, Italy |
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Sedation acts and Espionage |
Fined and jailed for interfering with the war effort for saying anything bad about the gov |
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Alvin York |
War hero |
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Selective service act |
The draft |
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Treaty of Versailles |
Official peace treaty the us didn’t sign |
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Sanford B dole |
Helped overthrow Queen Liliuokalani then took over as head of Hawaii gov |
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USS Maine |
Ship exploded in the harbor of Havana, Cuba and became the battle cry for the war against Spain |
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Panama Canal |
Us paid 10 mill plus annual rent of 250000 to build and maintain this |
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Central powers in WW1 |
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
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14 points |
Woodrow Wilson’s peace plan |
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Platt amendment |
Cuba became protectorate of the us |
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Reparations |
Germany had to take sole responsibility of WW1 and had to pay the League of Nations for war costs |
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Zimmerman Telegram |
Encouraged Mexico to go to war with the us |
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Queen Liliuokalani |
Forced to surrender her island to the us gov |
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Eddie Rickenbacker |
Most famous fighter pilot of WW1 |
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Admiral Alfred T. Mahan |
Us became 3rd largest naval power |
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War guilt clause |
Germany had to state that WW1 was all their fault |
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Schenk vs. US |
Supreme Court said under wartime freedom of speech is limited |
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Big three |
Wilson, Clemenceau, George |
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George Dewey |
Led the charge against Spanish in Philippines |
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Great Migration |
Large scale movement of hundreds of thousands southern blacks, to cities in the North |
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Yellow journalism |
Exaggeration of the news to lure and enrage readers |
