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EOC Chapter 19
World War I
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| nationalism | devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation |
| militarism | the development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy |
| Allies | France, Britain, Russia, and later, the United States |
| Archduke Franz-Ferdinand | heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Throne, the assassination of whom started World War I |
| no-man's land | barren expanse of ground between trenches, constantly covered by rifles, machine guns, and artillery |
| Lusitania | British liner sunk by the Germans; helped bring the U.S. into WWI |
| Zimmerman Note | telegram from German foreign minister to German ambassador in Mexico-- proposed alliance between Mexico and Germany against the U.S. |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | best U.S. flying ace of WWI; also a racecar driver |
| Selective Service Act | required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service |
| convoy system | system in which a guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic in groups |
| AEF (American Expeditionary Force) | American soldiers sent to fight in WWI |
| John Pershing | leader of the AEF (a native Missourian, by the way) |
| Alvin York | conscientious objector who later changed his status and became a war hero |
| conscientious objector | person who opposes participation in war on moral grounds |
| armistice | truce |
| War Industries Board | main U.S. government regulator of production during WWI |
| Bernard Baruch | leader of the War Industries Board |
| propaganda | biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions |
| George Creel | head of the Committee on Public Information |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | acts that made it a crime to say or do anything interfering with the war effort or the government |
| Great Migration | the large-scale movemement of hundreds of thousands of blacks to cities in the North |
| Schenck v. United States | court case that established the "clear and present danger test" to determine what constitutes protected and non-protected speech |
| Fourteen Points | proposals Woodrow Wilson made to stop wars after WWI |
| League of Nations | international organization designed to address diplomatic crises like those that had sparked WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty formally ending World War I |
| war-guilt clause | part of the Treaty of Versailles forcing Germany to admit sole responsibility for starting World War I |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | conservative U.S. Senator who objected to the inclusion of the U.S. in the League of Nations |
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