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Xenophobia
General dislike of foreigners popular among the older generations due to the rapid immigdration rates -
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WW1
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Great Migration
Mass movement of African Americans from rual south to the urban north spurred especially by new job oppurtunities during WW1 -
Militarism, Imperialism, Alliance System,
All political beliefs that lead to the war -
Assasination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria and his wife shot dead in Saravejo by gavrillo Princp, commencing WW1 -
Lusitania
Was a British passenger ship that sunk by a German U-boat almost 128 Americans dead. -
"He kept us out of war"
Was the slogan used by Woodrow Wilson campaign that led the incumbent president to a narrow victory over Charles Evans Hughes -
Zimmerann Telegram
A coded telegram dispatched by the foreign secretary of the German Empire. -
Russian Revolution
Sparred bloody Sunday. rebellions borke out, people everywhere began to disobey the czar's strict rules -
Russian Overthrow of Czar
The army garrison at petrograd joined stricking workers in demanding socialist reformers and czar Nicholas II was found to abdicate. -
Selective Service Act
Authrozed president Woodrow Wilson to raise own infrantry force. -
Espionage Act
Federal law that made it a crime for a person to mail or print information that inspired dissent against the American War effect. -
War Industry Board
Intended to restore economic order to make sure he were producing enough at home, was disbanded to few days after the armsite -
Fourteen Points
The war aims outlined by president Woodrow Wilson, which he believed would promote peace such as freedom of seas, free trade, and reduciton of arms. -
Influenza Pandemic
Global outbreak of a deadly type of flu spread by soldiers attacked the young and healthy as well as the weak, estimated 675,000 people dead in the US -
General Pershing and American Expeditionary Force
The american expeditionary forces under General John J Pershing launched their first major offensive in Europe as an independent army. -
Sedition Act
Brought by the Wilson administration they storted that any trachorus act or draft doding was not allowed. -
Schenck v. United States
Schenck was an officer of an anti war group who was arrested by the espionage act, noted that espionage act was justifiable -
Treaty of Versailles
Was about Germany and how they started the war and had to pay for what they got and owed to many countries -
Big Four Meets
The countries that were allied, together in WW1 US, England, France. and Italy -
Red Scare
The communist party was gaining strength in the US and American feared communism