World War One - American History

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  1. 4. German naval strategy employed January 31, 1917 intending to sink all ships in British waters - hostile or neutral - on sight
  2. 5. most famous soldier of the AEF, who was known for his heroic acts in the battlefield - killing 25 Germans with a revolver and rifle and leading the capture of 132 German prisoners of war
  3. 7. the act of rebelling or revolting against government of naval officials; German sailors did this against government authority on the day that Austria-Hungary surrendered to the Allies
  4. 9. nickname for American infantrymen who were often shocked by the unexpected horrors of the battlefield and astonished by the new weapons and tactics of modern warfare
  5. 11. group of communists who led the Russian Revolution in the overthrow of the Russian tzar
  6. 18. American political groups who believed World War One was evil, and the United States should set an example of world peace by remaining neutral
  7. 21. British ocean liner sunk by German submarine resulting in the deaths of 1,198 passengers -128 of whom were American - in May of 1915
  8. 23. the development of strong armed forces and their use as a tool for diplomacy
  9. 24. an empire of mostly Middle Eastern lands controlled by the Turks - nation of Turkey
  10. 26. member of the Serbian nationalist group, the Black Hand, who assassinated the heir the the Austrian-Hungarian throne in 1914
  11. 28. alliance also known as the Triple alliance consisting of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
  12. 29. a truce that ends a war - specifically on the 11th hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 this is how the war between Germany and the Allied Powers ended
  13. 30. an industrialized nation that competed with Great Britain and France in the contest for colonies; was the strongest nation on the European continent by 1890
  14. 31. acronym that stands for the four long-term causes of war
  15. 34. the first woman elected to Congress and was the only member of the House of Representatives to vote against the U.S. entering both World War One and World War Two
  16. 35. American political groups who criticized World War One as a capitalist and imperialist struggle between Germany and England to control markets and colonies in China, Africa, and the Middle East
  17. 37. a disease many soldiers developed from standing in cold wet trenches for long periods of time without changing into dry socks or boots - toes and sometimes entire feet would rot and infection
  18. 38. short for the German word for submarine, unterseeboot - which Germany used to sink any Allied ship found in the waters around Britain as a response to the British blockade
  19. 40. a naval power strategy employed by Britain to defeat Germany by stationing battleships along German coasts to prevent weapons and other military supplies - even food and crop fertilizer - from getting through
  20. 41. major city in the region of Bosnia - controlled by the Austrian Hungarian Empire - which is the location of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914
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  1. 1. when strong military nations - specifically European nations during the WWI era - extend economic and political control over various smaller nations throughout the world
  2. 2. segregated African-American army unit that saw more continuous duty on the front line than any other American regiment - two soldiers from this unit were the first Americans to receive France's highest military honor - the Croix de Guerre
  3. 3. a telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany and promised that if war with the US broke out, Germany would support Mexico in recovering "lost territory" in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
  4. 6. the position the United States had maintained in World War One toward the waring sides for the first three years of the conflict; abandoned in 1917
  5. 8. a naval and shipping strategy in which a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean in groups - causing shipping losses to decline
  6. 10. American president and Democrat who was re-elected in 1916 and ran under the campaign slogan, "he kept us out of war"
  7. 12. an independent nation located in the Balkan region of Eastern Europe from where millions of people lived under the rule of the Empire of Austria-Hungary. The competition between Austria-Hungary and Russia for influence over this nation is a major cause of World War One
  8. 13. a term coined in World War One to describe a complete emotional collapse caused by constant bombardments and battle fatigue from which many never recovered
  9. 14. a region called the "Powder Keg of Europe" due to the ethnic rivalries among various peoples in the area; includes Serbia, Greece, and Bulgaria
  10. 15. the German kaiser who led his nation to become a major sea power in order to compete successfully with the British navy
  11. 16. the archduke and heir the the throne of the Austrian-Hungarian Empires; whose assassination was the main event that triggered World War One
  12. 17. a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation
  13. 19. Russia regarded itself as the protector of this European ethnic group; no matter which government they lived under
  14. 20. Germany's first strategy used in World War One; a plan to invade Belgium in it's offensive against Russia and France
  15. 22. title given to the United States military troops led by General John Pershing in World War One
  16. 25. many ethnic groups who resented imperialistic domination by various nations longed for their own nations to achieve ___?___
  17. 27. a law passed by U.S. Congress in May 1917 to meet the demand for manpower in World War One - it required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service
  18. 32. severe food shortage that stalked Germany - causing 750,000 Germans to starve to death as a result of the British Blockade
  19. 33. new type of war machine that ran on caterpillar treads and were built of steel so that bullets bounced off; they could also drive through barbed wire
  20. 36. major characteristic and military strategy employed on French battlefields during WWI - a series of deep trenches separated by a "no mans land" of shell craters and barbed wire where men were often mowed down by machine gun fire
  21. 39. alliance also known as the Triple Entente consisting of France, Britain and Russia