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| roosevelt corollary | addition to monroe doctrine that allowed the U.s. to intervene directly if latin americans failed to keep order in their nations |
| treaty of portsmouth | peace treaty that roosevelt engineered between russia and japan that earned him the nobel peace prize. |
| the great white fleet | battleships that roosevelt sent on a world tour to showcase us naval might to forien nations |
| dollar diplomacy | taft's plan to promote internations peace: it relied on substituting economices aid for military strength |
| central powers | name for the alliance of germany and the austro-hungarian empire in WWI |
| u-boat | new german weapon they used to terrorize transatlantic travelers |
| allies | name for the alliance between the british french russians japanese and italiansduring WWI |
| lusitania | passenger vessel sunk by german U-boats during 1915 that nearly broughbt the u.s into the war |
| sussex pledge | german pledge to stop sinking all nonmiltary vessels |
| selective service act | conscription act passed in 1916 to raise the necessary |
| war industries board | coordinated production during wartime trought networks of industrial and trade associations. |
| bond drives | method of financing the war effort |
| zimmermann telegram | Telegram sent by Germany to Mexico trying to get mexico to allie against the U.S. |
| sedition act | set harsh penalties for individuals who impeded teh war effort or that could be veiwed as even remotly unpatriotic |
| schenck v. united states | unanimously affirmed teh right of teh espionage act to convict a sociallist party officer who had mailed fliers opposing the draft |
| fourteen points | wilson's plan for a postwar peace that included the league of nations |
| league of nations | an international association designed to keep international |
| treaty of versailies | postwar peace treaty that was never ratified by congress |
| palmer raids | raids launched across the us by the attorney genera that picked up individuals suspected of communism or (often) any other vague accusations. |
| platt amendment | an amendment taht gave american authority the right to intervene in Cuba if the independence was threatend |
| August 4, 1914 | Date which marked German invasion on Belgian country side which was heading its trajectory to France |
| Committe on Public Information | Committe initiated by Wilson to heelp boost American Commitment to the war |
| National War Labor Board | President Wilson created National War labor board (NWLB) to keep factories running smoothly |
| "Four Minute" Men | Nation wide organization, that assisted departments of the govenment in an efort to improve national defence |
| The Big Four | Woodrow Wilson, David Loyd George, George Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando, all were at ambasadors to a conference in Versails France |
| Dr. William Gorgas | Sanitation engineer in charge of eradication the yellow fever mosquito to protect workers in Panama |
| Elihu Root | SecrSecretary of state under Roosevelt |
| Philander Knox | Taft's Secretary of state and teh architect of the policy of "dollar Diplomacy" |
| Edward M. House | Chief Advisor to President Wilson |
| Francisco "Pancho" Willa | pesant general whose rebellin against mexican state was supproted by Wilson |
| General Jhon "Black jack" Pershing | director of the war industries board |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Wilson's opponent in the 1916 election who called for straight and honest neutrality and peace |
| Bernard Baruch | Director of the Wr Industries Board |
| George Creed | director of the Committe on Public Information |
