WW1 Flashcards

(33 cards)

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Nationalism

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Countries act in their own national interests

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Alliances

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  • Europe divided into teams

- later allies v central powers

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Imperialism

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  • quest for more colonies

- offers money&power

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Militarism

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Massive build up of military force

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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  • are to throut of austerya Hungary
  • killed by tarerist
  • assisted bye Serbian tarerist
  • austrea declara was on serbea
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Allies

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Great Briton, France, Italy, and Russia

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Central powers

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turku, and balgary

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U-boats

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  • German subs
  • us saw it as vicious
  • Germany declare GB waters a war zone
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English blockade

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  • cut off us trade w/ central powers

- tightened vs relationship w/ allies

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The Lusitania

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  • British liner sunk bye Germany

- killed 1,198

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The Sussex

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  • French cross-channel ferry
  • sunk by German u-boat
  • forced us to start defense measures
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National defense act

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  • Doubled are army
  • More ships
  • increased industry and resoraes
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Zimmerman telegram

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  • suggested a German Mexican alliance
  • Mexico to invad U.S.
  • intersected bye British
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Mobilization

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Organization preparation for people and resoraes I war

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Selective service act

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  • Required all men 21 to 30 to register with the local draft bored
  • 2.8 million drafted (half of the army)
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African American soldiers

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  • saw a chance to be treated equally
  • segregated units (whit officers)
  • non combat tasks
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AEF

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  • American expedition force
  • nick name (Doug boys)
  • John J Pershing
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John j Pershing

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Jeneral of u.s. Trops

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Convoy

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Merchant ships carrying troops and suplis surrounded bye military ships to protect against u-boats

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Trench warfare

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  • Nomans land, land between toe trenches
  • maze
  • disease and sickness rats lice fluds
  • always muddy
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Battle of the Somme

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  • over 1,000,000 dead

- GB 6,000,000 dead in one day

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Liberty bonds

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Citizens loan money to help with the war

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Food administration

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  • Herbert Hoover
  • farm production
  • victory gardens
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Espionage act

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Can’t do anything disloyal to US gov or military

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Sedition act
Can't say anything against the gov
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Women
- men went in to military women toke Thera jobs - women worked out side the home - served on military - vital to wining the war
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Great migration
- African Americans moved from south to north - labor short equils job opertuniteys - rashail violenc
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Armistice
-agreement to stop fighting
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The big far
- allies US GB France and Italy | - Paris peac conference
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Wilson's 14 points
- desined to remove causes of conflict | - 14 point
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League of Nations
- maintain world peace - headquarters in Geneva - US did not join - failed
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Self-determination
Right of colonized people to decides there own form of government
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Treaty if Versailles
- ends World War One - only the allies nagoseat - Germany takes blame pays fine - create league of nashins - US dose not sign