2/19/2013 Flashcards
date for the beginning of World War I
July 28, 1914
German operational submarines (Unterseebooten)
U-Boats
British ocean liner that was sunk by Germany of the coast of Ireland in 1915
Lusitania
German foreign secretary who hoped to “set new enemies on America’s neck wrote telegraph that was interceded by Americans.
Arthur Zimmermann
Congress declared war against Germany
April 6, 1917
Act-creates the draft, requiring all males between the ages of twenty-one and thirty (later changed to eighteen and forty-five) to register
Selective Service Act
refusing to bear arms for religious or pacifist reasons
conscientious objector
headed by John Pershing wanted his sturdy rookies to remain a separate army
AEF-American expeditionary forces
American flying aces like him defeated their German counterparts in aerial dogfights and became heroes in France and their own country.
Eddie Rickenbacker
- In November 1917, the liberal-democratic government of Aleksander Kerensky, which had led the country since the tsar’s abdication early in the year, was overthrown by V. I. Lenin’s radical socialists.
Bolshevik Revolution
a plan announced by president Wilson for new world order, Wilson reaffirmed America’s commitment to an international system governed by laws and renounced territorial gains as a legitimate war aim
Fourteen Points
who Wilson confided in that he really wanted to tell the Bolsheviks to “go to hell,” but he accepted the colonel’s argument that he would have to address Lenin’s claims that there was little to distinguish the two warring sides and that socialism represented the future
Col. Edward House
allied victory in July 1918, the German advance at Cantigny
Second Battle of the Marne
over 1 million Americans joined British and French troops in weeks of combat; the Allies claimed the Argonne Forest on October 10.
Meuse-Argonne offensive
(Armistice Day)-the end of the war, the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany
November 11, 1918
