Chapter 12 American History Flash Cards

Chapter 12 Section 1

-Nationalism
*Countries acting on national interest.
*Different ethnic population.
-Imperialism
*Competition for the lands that remained led to conflict among the powers of Europe.
*Japan became more powerful after their war and got more land.
-Militarism
*Europe aggressively built armed forces.
*The Great Powers spent large sums of money on new weapons and warships.
-Alliances
*Germany and Austria-Hungary linked by treaties (later called the Central Powers)
*France, Great Britain, and Russia (later called the Allies)

*Russia ready's its troops even though Germany tells them not to after Albania assinates the Prime Minister of Austria-Hungary, France gets its troops ready and joins, Germany joins Austria-Hungary and declares war on Russia.

*The Defensive front had all new modern weapons These included: modern machine guns and rapid-fire artillery, to stop the soldiers that were advancing.
*The Defense were ripped apart by the German's grenades, machine guns, and poisonous gas during WWI.

*Businesses with ties to Great Britain urged the US to get ready for WWI.
*The leaders of the Preparedness Movement persuaded the government to set up camps to train American men for combat.

Chapter 12 Lesson 2

-British Involvement
*Great Britain competed with Germany to build the largest, strongest navy and created a stalemate on the waters.
-Sussex Pledge
*United States made a deal with Germany that the U-boats would warn ships before attacking.
-U-boats
*Enabled Germany to break a stalemate at sea.

Zimmermann Note
*Germany made a deal with Mexico, that if Mexico invaded the United States, Germany would reward Mexico with American land in the Southwest.

Chapter 12 Section 3

*The purpose of the convoy system was to get the American soldiers to Great Britain safely by surrounding a group of unarmed ship filled with soldiers with destroyers, torpedo boats, and other armed naval vessels equipped with hydrophones (device used to track enemy ships) to track and destroy the U-boats.

*African Americans were put in segregated units.
*Most black soldiers never saw combat, though many fought with discrimination and nearly 4,000 died or were injured.
*The marines refused to accept them altogether and the navy only used the African Americans for only easy tasks.
*The army, too, used African Americans for manual labor.

*Authorized by Congress to draft young men into WWI.

*Vladimir Lenin signed a peace treaty with Germany and it caused the British forces to be attacked by Germany and be separated from France so the German forces can reach Paris and take it over.

*Physical and mental scars, 50,000 American soldiers died in battle, and so many others died from the flu/influenza.

*The Ottoman forces deported and murdered Armenians, who the Ottomans suspected of disloyalty to the government.

Chapter 12 Section 4