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  1. 6. the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern and Midwestern cities between 1910 and 1930 for jobs and to escape racism.
  2. 7. an international organization created after World War I to help countries resolve disputes peacefully and prevent future wars.
  3. 9. payments made by a defeated country to compensate for damage and costs caused during a war.
  4. 12. a type of fighting in World War I where soldiers lived and fought from long, dug-out trenches facing each other across “no man’s land.” Great Migration was the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to Northern and Midwestern cities between 1910 and 1930 for jobs and to escape racism.
  5. 14. is a policy in which a stronger nation takes control of weaker territories for economic, political, or military gain.
  6. 16. was a period from the 1890s to the 1920s when reformers worked to fix social, political, and economic problems caused by industrialization and urbanization.
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  1. 1. a secret message from Germany to Mexico in 1917, proposing an alliance against the United States; its discovery helped push the U.S. into World War I.
  2. 2. was a conflict in 1898 between the United States and Spain, resulting in the U.S. gaining territories like Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.
  3. 3. the 1919 peace treaty that officially ended World War I, punishing Germany with territory losses, military limits, and reparations
  4. 4. were community centers in poor urban neighborhoods that provided social services, education, and support to immigrants and the working class.
  5. 5. a man-made waterway in Central America, completed in 1914, that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans to shorten shipping routes.
  6. 6. a U.S. policy that called for equal trading rights in China and the protection of its territorial integrity.
  7. 8. President Woodrow Wilson’s 1918 proposal for a just peace after World War I, including ideas like self-determination and the creation of an international peace organization.
  8. 10. was a violent uprising in China (1899–1901) by a group known as the “Boxers” who aimed to expel foreign influence and missionaries.
  9. 11. was a style of sensational and exaggerated reporting used to attract readers and influence public opinion, especially before the Spanish-American War.
  10. 13. President Theodore Roosevelt’s foreign policy of negotiating peacefully while using the threat of a strong military to influence other countries.
  11. 15. a British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915, killing many civilians and increasing U.S. anger toward Germany before World War I.