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Start of Great Migration

The Great Migration, in which about half a million African Americans moved to the urban North from the rural South, began about 1905 and ended around 1930.

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Woodrow Wilson re-elected

Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president of the United States, having used the motto, “He kept us out of the war,” as a campaign slogan.

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American Expeditionary Force

The American Expeditionary Force was the army of American troops that served under Gen. John J. Pershing during World War I.

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Central Powers

During World War I, the coalition of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire made up the Central Powers.

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War Industries Board

The War Industries Board was established in 1917 to coordinate the production of materials for World War I.

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National War Labor Board

The National War Labor Board was established in 1918 to resolve labor disputes during World War I.

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Allies

In World War I, the Allied forces were initially composed of Britain, France, Belgium, Serbia, and Russia, with Japan, Italy, the United States, and fifteen other nations joining the alliance before the war’s end.

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Committee on Public Information

The United States Committee on Public Information, also known as the Creel Committee, was an agency headed by progressive journalist George Creel during World War I. The committee directed the government’s propaganda effort, encouraging public support for the war through pro-war films and publications and the recruitment of volunteer patriotic speakers.

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League of Nations

The League of Nations was an international organization conceived by President Woodrow Wilson and established by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Wilson had introduced the idea of a “general association of nations” for collective security, arbitration, and diplomacy in his Fourteen Points and lobbied for its creation at the Paris Peace Conference. Though the conference adopted the Covenant of the League of Nations as part of the Treaty of Versailles, the United States never became a member because Wilson was unable to convince Congress to...

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conscientious objectors

Conscientious objectors are people who refuse to bear arms or take part in military training or service due to their religious, philosophical, or moral beliefs or principles.