chapter 21

Arabic

Passenger-liner sunk in August 1915

Vladimir Lenin

Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)

Kaiser Wilhelm

grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918

Central

group that opposed by the allies.

Reparations

payment for damages after the war

Selective service act

This 1917 law provided for the registration of all American men between the ages of 21 and 30 for a military draft. By the end of WWI, 24.2 had registered; 2.8 had been inducted into the army. Age limit was later changed to 18 to 45.

national defense act

(June 1916) Increased the number of US soldiers in the army, navy and national guard.

Woodrow Wilson

28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize

sussex

A French passenger ship that was attacked by Germany. An Agreement then proposed by Wilson that Germany had to promise to alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships.

Schlieffen

A German military strategy in WW1 that called for a holding action against Russia while German forces moved through Belgium to knock out France

sussex pledge

A promise Germany made to America, after Wilson threatened to sever ties, to stop sinking their ships without warning.

American Expeditionary Force

About 2 million Americans went to France as members of this under General John J. Pershing. Included the regular army, the National Guard, and the new larger force of volunteers and draftees and they served as individuals

Nationalism

Belief that a great deal of pride and loyalty is owned to one's nation

block aid

Britain used its ships to stop shipments to germany.

Militerilitizam

Build up of ammunition.

Serbia

Country originally held responsible by austria-hungary for assassination of Franz Ferdinanad

Treaty of Versailles

Created by the leaders victorious allies Nations: France, Britain, US, and signed by Germany to help stop WWI. The treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to rapair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manefacture any weapons.

Arther Zimmerman

He wrote a telegram called the zimmerman note. To tell the mexican people to make a war in the united states and not let the americans into the easter part to help the allies win the war.

George Creel

Headed the Committee on Public Information, for promoting the war effort in WWI

committee on public information

It was headed by George Creel. The purpose of this committee was to mobilize people's minds for war, both in America and abroad. Tried to get the entire U.S. public to support U.S. involvement in WWI. Creel's organization, employed some 150,000 workers at home and oversees. He proved that words were indeed weapons.

Bolsheviks

Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI

Lusitania

Sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. 139 American killed. Forced Germany to stop submarine warfare.

Gavrillo Princip

The member of the Black Hand who assassinated the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, the spark that started WWI

Sedition & Espionage act

This Act imposed heavy penalties on anyone convicted of using disloyal language about the govn't, the Constitution, the flag, or the military. It also authorized the postmaster general to bar from the mail a wide variety of suspect material

John Pershing

US general who chased Villa over 300 miles into Mexico but didn't capture him

saav

Valley claimed by leagueof nations after WW1

Big four

Woodrow Wilson (US president), Georges Clemenceau (french premier), David Lloyd George (british prime minister), Vittorio Orlando (italian prime minister)

Franz Ferdinand

archduke of Austria Hungary who was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand; his death was a main cause for World War I

shenk

court case that gave precedent clear and present.

convoy system

system of using navy protect merchant ships

Self-determination

the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will

fourteen points

the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations