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the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence. | Dollar Diplomacy |
the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West | Great Migration |
British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915 | Lusitania |
offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause | Zimmermann Telegram |
authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people. | Selective Service Act |
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. | Trench Warfare |
US infantryman, especially one in World War I. | Doughboys |
the general in the United States Army who led the American Expeditionary Forces to victory over Germany in World War I, 1917–18 | John J. Pershing |
United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command of General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I | American Expeditionary Force |
an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce. | Armistice |
a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I, elucidated in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. | Fourteen Points |
was a document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war. | Treaty of Versailles |
the forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like. | League of Nations |
prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of government of the United States. | Espionage and Sedition Acts |