US History MOD 7.2

• Eddie Rickenbacker was a famous fighter pilot in WWI who fought the Red Barron who was a part of the German group The Flying Circus
• The Selective Service Act required all men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for the military
• The Convoy System involved a heavy guard of destroyers escorting merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups.
• The American Expeditionary Force was a group of men from all over who went overseas to fight in WWI. The group was led by General John Pershing. Also known as the Doughboys
• Women were not allowed to fight they were nurses and telegraph operators. Few did noncombat with the Maries and Navy
• The US increased ship production by exempting shipyard workers from the draft, using prefabrication techniques, and adding emphasis on the importance of shipyards
• Alvin York was a conscientious objector who set that aside and with the help of 6 doughboys and only a rifle and a revolver killed 25 Germans and captured 132 prisoners
• A conscientious objector is someone who opposes warfare an moral grounds
• An armistice is a truce
• Germany collapsed because when Austria-Hungary surrendered a mutiny led by German soldiers spread throughout Germany
• There was $33 billion in costs