History Vocab 11
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- War Industries Board
- encouraged companies to see mass-production techniques
- Treaty of Versailles
- established nine new nations
- League of Nations
- provide a forum of nations to discuss and settle their grievance without having to resort to war
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- heir to the Austrian throne
- Reparations
- war damages
- Allies
- consisted of France, Great Britain, Russia U.S. and Italy
- Espionage and Sedition Acts
- states that a person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the draft
- Convoy System
- merchant vessels would travel in a large group with a guard of destroyers and cruisers
- Militarism
- the development of armed forces and their use as a tool diplomacy
- Fourteen Points
- speech made by Woodrow Wilson
- Zimmermann Note
- a telegram sent by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador that said that they wanted to invade the U.S.
- Mechanized Warfare
- warfare that relies on machines powered by gasoline and diesael engines
- Lusitania
- British liner that caused WWI
- War-guilt Clause
- forced Germany to acknowledge that it alone was responsible for WWI
- Central Powers
- consisted of Germany and Austro-Hungary
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- head of conservative senators
- "No Mans Land"
- a barren expanse of mud pockmarded with shell craters
- Trench Warfare
- military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems
- Selective Service Act
- requires men to register with the government
- Great Migration
- large scale movement of hundreds of thoudands of Southern blacks to cities in the North