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Gavrilo Princip

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Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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Heir to AH (including Bosnia) throne

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Why did London join the war?

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Germany slashed at Belgium (neutral) to get to France

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Shandong

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Region of China under German control; Japan wants

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Wilsonianism

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Democracy, open door, US is the only one who can lead the world into democratic peace; married ideal and interest

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1915 Berlin’s declaration

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War zone around Britain to deter neutral ships

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Unterseebooten

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sigma

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Lusitania/Arabic

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Ships carrying Americans attacked by Germany

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Sussex

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France ship with 4 Americans; attacked by U boat; America gave warning

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~1916 British relation deterioration

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British crushing of Ireland rebellion, restriction of US trade with central powers

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Women’s Peace Party

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Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt

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Claims of women peace advocates

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“Mother half of humanity”’s special role as “Guardians of life”

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American Union Against Militarism

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Organized by pacifist progressives

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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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Helped finance peace groups (1910)

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Henry Ford’s peace efforts

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traveled on “peace ship” to propagandize for negotiated settlement

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German strategy after 1916

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All out attack on supply; 600,000 tons sinked/month = Britain starves before America can intervene

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Arthur Zimmermann

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Sent telegram to Mexico; Britain intercepted

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Armed-ship bill

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1917; Wilson wants armed neutrality after Zimmermann; Peace advocates filibustered; Wilson armed anyway; Too late to stop some ships from attack (anger, congress into special session in March)

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Jeanette Rankin

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First women to sit in congress; cast no vote in war against Germany; “peace is a woman’s job”

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Critics of Wilson

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1, Too rigid interpretation of international policies
2, Bad assertion that Americans should be allowed to travel anywhere even on dangerous ships

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National Defense Act

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1916, preparedness, increase in army and national guard and training camps

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Navy act

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1916, largest naval expansion in American history

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Selective Service act

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1917, all males between 21-30 must register (later 18-45)

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“Hello girls”

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Women serving as volunteer bilingual telephone operators in the war

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369th Infantry Regiment
All black, spent most time in trenches and earned most medals
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Student Army Training Corps
colleges students joined
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Black soldiers treatment
Segregated regiments, warm reception from French, more respect serving in French armies
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COs
Conscientious objectors (refuse to bear arms for religious/pacifist reasons); ex quakers/mennonites; "enemies of the republic", refusal of noncombat server = imprisonment
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John J. Pershing
Led American Expeditionary Forces, refused to throw his troops into Trench warfare
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Battle of Somme
1916, 1mil+ deaths for France/Britain to only gain 125 miles^2
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Bolshevik Revolution
Lenin takes over Russia; Changing world politics in direction of socialism (conflict with Wilson); published allies' secret agreement to slice central powers like cake
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14 points
Wilson's response to Lenin, diplomacy in public view, appealed for self determination of Europe, league of nationas
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Want end war, Erased Russian expansion, Ukraine granted independence, allow Bolshevik's loyals to return home and fight against rebellion
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Meuse-Argonne offensive
Ended war
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War Industries Board
Business collaboration committees (EX: aluminum advisory committee, whose president was president of biggest aluminum company) disbanded and put under WIB
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Government helping business in war
Suspended anti trust, cost-plus contracts guaranteed businesses profit to pay workers against striking
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"Victory Gardens"
Americans encouraged to each meatless/wheatless meals; Herbert Hoover voluntary compaigns to conserve (and produce) food
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Telephone telephgraph company strikes
Federal seized and ran them
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Bernard Baruch
Ran WIB, told Henry Ford that his plants would be seized if he did not comply, fixed prices, standardized goods (EX wheel types)
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Revenue act 1916
Increased taxes on high incomes/corporate profits to pay for war goods (gov paid 2/3 of war using loans and 1/3 with taxes)
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Revenue act 1917
Steeper graduation on personal income tax, increased taxes on alcohol, tobacco, luxury
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Department of Labor in overcoming labor shortages
Dropped immigration requirements (Mexico), attracted (many blacks) people to cities, houses built by other organizations to house laborers
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Women's Commitee of the Council of National Defense
Carrie Chapman Cat, Ida Tarbell, participation helped passage of 19th
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National War Labor Board
Wilson wanted to keep factories running; Bridgeport strikes repressed; General electric raise wages and stop discrimminating against union memners
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Union reaction
AFL joined Wilson and tried to put down strikes; critized by socialist party; rebelled against by local AFL/IWW
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Committee on Public Information
pro-war propaganda, four minute men
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Espionage Act
1917, banned "false statements" impeding draft/military, banned "treasonous" statements"
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Sedition act of 1918
Cannot obstruct sale of war bonds or criticize government
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Schenck v US
1919, unanimous upheld conviction of socialist party member critic
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Communist International
Spread of Russian revolution; caused red scare
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William Z. Foster
Organized steel strikes for bread and butter, but was dismissed as radical
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1919 labor strikes
Bombs were sent to prominent Americans by mail; red scare
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American Legion
Veteran's guild, 1919, did not like radicalism and fueled red scare
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A Mitchell Palmer
Appointed J. Edgar Hoover to head Radical division of Department of Justice; imprisoned IWW and deported Emma Goldman (Russia)
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Palmer raids 1920
Arrested thousands of suspected communists around America without search warrant
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Red summer 1919
Outbreak of racial violence; some northern whites resented "Negro invasion"
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Paris Peace Conference
Bosheviks denied seat, Wilson abandoned public diplomacy, Wilson want light punishment for Germany but everyone else wanted compensation, imperalism
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Balfour Declaration of 1917
Britain's wartime promise to palestine "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities"
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