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| Impressment | the forced enlistment of sailors (usually American) by the British army |
| Francis Scott Key | a detained American who watched the Battle of Ft. McHenry from a British ship - he wrote the poem “Battle of Ft. McHenry” which became the “Star Spangled Banner” set to an English tavern tune |
| Battle of New Orleans | Andrew Jackson takes on the brits in NO. It is ironic that the war was actually over when the battle took place because the treaty was already signed. The Americans took out many brits and all of their leadership. Major Victory for America and brought Andrew Jackson praise and became a hero |
| Lusitania | torpedoed and sank off the coast of Ireland on May 7, 1915 with the loss of 1198 lives including 128 Americans - was carrying 4200 cases of small arms ammunition which the Germans used to justify the sinking |
| Zimmerman Note | a German note intercepted on March 1, 1917 that infuriated Americans - it proposed a German-Mexican alliance that promised the recovery of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona for the Mexicans. Considered one of the provoking factors of the war |
| Committee on Public Information | headed by George Creel (see above) - employed some 150,000 workers at home and overseas and proved that words were weapons - sent out an army of “four-minute men” (75,000) to delivered patriotic pep talks |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson’s idea of a peace treaty at the end of WWI. The most important thing he wanted was the League of Nations. It was very forgiving to the Axis powers. Many American and Europeans did not like its generosity. It proposed no secret treaties, Freedom of Seas, of League. |
| The "Big Four" | Britain (Llyod-George)-make Germany pay, US (Wilson) League of Nations, France (Clemenceau) weaken Germany, self-Preservation, Italy (Orlando) wanted the land promised in the secret treaty of London (1915) |
| Munich Conference | held in September 1938 - the Western European democracies betrayed Czechoslovakia to Germany when they consented to the shearing away of the Sudetenland - they hoped this would eventually halt Hitler’s thirst for power and bring peace - didn’t work |
| Executive Order #9066 | issued by FDR - ordered the internment of Japanese Americans (aliens and citizens alike), from their home and sent them to concentration camps - the order never specifically stated its target was the Japanese, however it was always intended to be towards them |
| D-Day | June 6 1944, invasion of France. It was delayed several time because they had to wait for things like weather and low tide. |
| The Yalta Conference | final meeting of the big three (Churchill, FDR, and Stalin) - final plans were made for smashing the German lines and assigning occupation zones in Germany to victorious powers - Stalin agreed Poland should have a representative government based on free elections |
| Enola Gay | the bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| The Wannsee Conference | Meeting of Nazi senior officials, where they developed the final solution. |
| Einsatzgruppen | genocide. SS death squads responsible for mass killings. |
