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What kind of competition was there in the U.S?

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Many foreigners living there causing imperialism and patriotic problems

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4 MAIN Longterm causes of ww1

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Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism

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Who was preparing for naval war?

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Germany and Britain

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What is the U.S. Doing with the military?

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Building up

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What did alliances do?

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Made nations over confident

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Who was in the Triple Alliance?

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Germany, Austria-Hungry, Italy

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Who was in the triple Entente?

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France, Russia, and Great Britain

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Short causes of WW1?

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Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand and wife hurtles toward WW1

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Why was the assassination of the Arch Duke a mistake?

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Arch Duke was in favor of Serbians having own country

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Why was Trench warfare bad?

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No movement in Front Lines

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What did Americans view as WW1?

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They saw it as a European problem

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Why did we join with Great Britain and France?

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Bc we owed French in revolutionary war

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What did Britain do with the news?

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Told lies of Germany and the Triple Alliance to America

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Tried to stay out of war

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Isolationists

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Wanted to go the war

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Interventionalists

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Wanted peace

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Internationalists

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What did German U-boats do?

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Sunk American ships

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How does Britain hide goods from Germans in order to transport?

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Hides in cruise ships

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19
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To build more ships

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Build more ships

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Zimmerman note

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Told Germany that Mexico that they would get land back if they went to war with them

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Forced enrollment in Army

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Selective Service Act

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22
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What was the date of first draw?

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June 1917 #258 had to go

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How many were drafted in army?

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2.8 mil

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How many agencies to support war economy ?

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9 agencies

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Controlled all different aspects of manufacturers and regulated industries; most powerful board
War Industries Board
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What happened if you didn't cooperate with war economy?
You didn't get your materials you original make
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2nd big agency; ran by Herbert Hoover; reduced consumption days
Food administration
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Ran the committee of public opinion; was to sell Americans and Get them on board for war
George creel
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Against anything German
War frenzy
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Was the ugliest aspect of WW1 home front
German discrimination
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What forbid people from fighting in war?
Moral and religious beliefs
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Why were women against war?
Wanted men to stay home
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How did women serve in war?
As nurse
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Act that says you can't disrupt war effort or factories
Espionage Act 1917
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Act that said you can't speak out against gov
Sedition Act 1918
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Spoke out against gov ; ran 4 times for president in jail
Eugene Debs
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What caused the Great Migration?
African Americans wanted jobs in factories
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Mexican to bring crops in US
Bracero Project
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How did U-Boats affect the war?
The german boats sank american supply ships and cargo
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how did the U-Boats lose their advantage?
The Merchant ships that were being attacked sailed together surrounded by warships known as a convoy
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How was Russia torn?
by revolutions
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staged a revolution and led radical communists to this and gained control of russia and overthrew Czar Nicholas II
Vladimir Lenin
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This treaty end the war with Russia and Germany
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
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What did the treaty of Brest-Litovsk end the war in which location?
War in Eastern Front
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What did the treaty of Brest-Litovsk allow Germany to do?
Send more troops to Eastern Front
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Commander of American forces in Europe
John J. Pershing
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What led to German offensive failure?
American and Allied counter attacks and German exhaustion
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Dough Boys
American troops that fought with French at 2nd battle of Marne and Battle of Contig
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Fought in Meuse-Argonne region, was trapped behind enemy lines, received medal of honor for bravery, charged germans with only a pistol
Alvin York of Tennessee
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What did African Americans receive for their hard fighting?
The Croix de Guerre
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How did Germany surrender?
With a railway car in campiegne France
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Wilson's outline for Americans War and Plans for peace
14 points
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What did the 14 points promote?
Openness, encouraging independence, and supporting freedom
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What did Wilson call for?
Open diplomacy (FREE TRADE, FREE SEAS)
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right for people to choose own government
self determination
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Did Wilson went to the paris peace conference by himself or with people?
By self
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foreign policy expert; dishonest, and disliked
Henry Cabot Lodge
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What did they talk about at the Paris Conference?
Weaken Germany
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payment for war damages
Reparations
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French wanted what land?
Alsace Lorraine
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What did treaties solve?
Nothing; created more problems
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did people listen to treaties?
No
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War guilt clause
Germany caused the war
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did not want to do anything with the League of Nations Treaties -Disliked article 10
Irreconcilables
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Called for mutual defense by signers of treaty of versatile
Article 10
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Led by Henry Lodge, opposed the treaty of Versaille as it was
reservationists
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what is influenza?
flu
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what did the flu do to the world?
Killed 1/5 of the world
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what did the flu do in America
killed 675,000
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When did influenza appear?
1918
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what happen when soldiers come home?
Women lose jobs
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Communists
The red scare
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Who were the Americans afraid of takeover
Communists
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Attorney General; wants to be president; wants to protect americans from comms
A Mitchell Palmer
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What were Palmer raids?
Palmer arresting comms, anarchists and stuff
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Dominion theory
if one country is comms, then the weaker countries are
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how did bombs blow up businesses?
Came through the mail
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Why was WGH chosen president?
Looked like a president
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Area the French wanted back that they lost to Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
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How did german fight?
With machine guns and artillery
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Why did the war last so long?
Defensive technology

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