Term | Definition |
Nationalism | Devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |
Militarism | Development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy |
Allies | Two major defense alliances in Europe, The Triple Entente |
Central Powers | Germany and Austria-Hungary with Ottoman Empire |
Archduke Franz Ferdinard | Heir the Austrian throne, was shot and killed by Gavrilo Princip |
No Man's Land | Barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire |
Trench Warfare | Armies fought for more yards of ground |
Lusitania | May 7, 1915 A U-boat sank the British liner causing the American public opinion to go against Germany and the central powers |
Zimmerman Note | Telegram from the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico that was intercepted by British agents |
Eddie Rickenbacker | Famous Fighter Pilot of WW1, Well known as a racevcar driver before the war |
Selective Service Act | Required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service |
Convoy System | Heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in Groups |
American Expeditionary Force | (AEF) Led by General John J. Pershing, Included men from widely separated parts of the country |
General John J. Pershing | Found that the Allies intended to use American troops as reinforcements, He urged the AEF to work independently. |
Alvin York | One of Americans greatest heroes, Killed 25 Germans and -With six other doughboys- captured 132 prisoners |
Conscientious Objecter | A person who opposes warfare on moral ground |
Armistice | Truce that Germany agreed to sign |
War Industries Board | (WIB) Encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency |
Bernard M. Baruch | A prosperous businessman and leader of WIB |
Propaganda | Kind of biased communication designed to influenced people's thoughts and actions |
George Creel | The head of the CPI, former muckraking journalist |
Espionage and Sedition Acts | A person could be fined up to $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government or the war effort |
Great Migration | The large-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern Blacks to cities in the North |
Fourteen Points | Speech by President Wilson, separated into 3 groups, First 5 were issues Wilson believed had to be addressed to prevent another war, Next 8, boundary changes, the fourteenth point creation of an international organization to address diplomatic crisises |
League of Nations | Provide forum for nations to discuss and settle their grievances without having to resort to war |
Georges Clemenceau | French premier, Lived through two German invasions of France and was determined to prevent future invasions |
David Lloyd George | British Prime minister, won reelection on a slogan "Make Germany Pay" |
Treaty of Versailles | Established 9 new nations, including Poland, Czechoslovakia and the kingdom that later became Yugoslavia and shifted the boundaries of other nations. |
Reparations | War damage, which is amounting to $33 million to the Allies |
War-Guilt Clause | Forced Germany to admit sole responsibility for starting WW1 |
Henry Cabot Lodge | Headed Conservative senators, suspicious of the provision for joint economic and military actions against aggression |