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WW1 Vocab Flashcards

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Alvin York

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WW1 hero, captured 132 Germans, silenced machine guns

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Harlem hell fighters

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African American infantry unit

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Erich Ludendorff

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Top German military commander

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John Pershing

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5 star US general, head of AEF

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Convoy system

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“Safety in the numbers” teams of destroyers escort merchant ships across the Atlantic

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Selective service act

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Males age 21-30 (18-45) required to register for military 3 mil drafted 2 mil volunteered

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Self determination

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A small group of people with the same political ambitions can create its own independent government or state

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Doughboys

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American soliders

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Brestlitovsk

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Peace treaty between Russia and the central powers

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Von schlieffen plan

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Attacking France through Belgium if Russia made an attack on Germany

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Henry cabot lodge

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President pro tempore and chair for the Republican Conference

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Armistice

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Seize fire (stop fighting)

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War industries board

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Company’s stopped making nice things and started making war supplies

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Liberty bonds

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war bond that was sold in the United States to support the Allied in World War I

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Food administration

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Herbert Hoover encouraged farmers to produce more food and public to eat less

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Committee on public information

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Made to mobilize public opinion in WW1

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Great migration

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AA southerners migrate to north Midwest cities like New York

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Espionage act

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Stiff penalties for spying

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Sedition act

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Crime to say or print anything bad about government

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Big four

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Italy, America, France, Great Britain

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6 of 14 points

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  1. Self determination
  2. Free trade
  3. Freedom of seas
  4. Reduction of arms
  5. No secret agreements
  6. League of Nations

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