Unit 6
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- Food Administration
- This government agency was headed by Herbert Hoover and was established to increase the production of food and ration food for the military.
- Bernard Baruch
- Head of the War Industries Board, which attempted to impose some order on the U.S. war production
- Trench Warfare
- war from inside trenches enemies would try killing eachother with machine guns and tanks, and poison gas
- Gavrilo Princip
- The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand
- Zimmerman Telegraph
- a telegram from Germany to Mexico telling them to invade the U.S. promising land and recources. Britian intercepted it.
- Allied Powers
- Great Britain, France, Russia
- Militarism
- A policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army always ready for war.
- Franz Ferdinand
- archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I
- Propaganda
- information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
- Sussex Pledge
- Agreement in which Germany ceases submarine warfare if British stop mining North Sea
- Russian Revolution
- the revolution against the Czarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917
- Nationalism
- devotion to one's country
- Central Powers
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire-Turkey
- U-Boats
- undersea boat
- War Industries Board
- Agency established during WWI to increase efficiency & discourage waste in war-related industries.