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Federal Reserve Act 1913
- created our modern banking system
- restricted private control of money and banks
- 12 regional districts and a central bank
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Clayton Anti Trust Act
- attacks price discrimination and interlocking directorates
- same individuals were on the boards of competing firms
- cant break a law while smoking or picketing
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
assassination of Ferdinand in Sarajevo
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Central and Allied Powers
- Central: Turkey, Austria-Hungary, Germany
- Allies: France, Russia, US, Italy, Britain
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Lusitania
- May 7, 1915
- Lusitania was sunk by a U-Boat, killing 128 Americans
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Sussex Pledge
Germany offers the Sussex Pledge will not sink passenger and merchant vessels without giving warning if the US will try to break the British blockade
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Franz Ferdinand
- Assassinated on June 28, 1914
- caused the spark of ww1 by slave nationalist (The Black Hand)
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Zimmerman note
the German ambassador sends a note to the Mexican ambassador promising TX and NM if Mexico would attack the US and get the US
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Russian Revolution 1917
- takes Russia out of the war
- Vladimir Lenin took over the government and makes it communist
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Fourteen Points January 8, 1915
- abolish secret treaties
- freedom of the seas
- reduction of amendments
- adjustment of colonial claim
- self determination
- league of nations
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Committee on Public Information
- George Creel: propaganda to aid war effort
- four minute men
- billboards, leaflets, songs, and movies
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Espionage Act of 1917
- Eugene v Debs and Haywood imprisoned
- Schneck v US: not violation of free speech if it posed a "clear and present danger"
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National War Labor Board
- "work or fight"
- "labor will win the war"
- William H. Taft
- 8 hour day: no guarantee for unions
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Marshal Foch
supreme commander and allied forces in France
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Second Battle of the Marne July 1918
- 243,000 US join French forces to push German forces out of St. Mibeil
- begins German withdrawal
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Meuse Argonne Offensive
- 1918 Germans surrendered
- hero: Alvin C. York
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US Contributions
- food
- credit
- loans
- guns
- bullets
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Human Costs
10 million people worldwide
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Henry Cabot Lodge
- major dpoinent aganist the Treaty of Versea and League of Nations
- too weak
- created seperate super state
- Us morally responsible to help its allies
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Treaty of Doom Name and Reasons
- Treaty of Versailles: unfair, violates 14 points
- never ratified by Senate
- Wilson gets sick and his wife runs the country
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