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WWI
World War One
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Militarism | A policy of military preparedness |
| Alliances | a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations |
| Imperialism | the actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller or weaker nation |
| Nationalism | loyalty and devotion to a nation |
| Trench Warfare | warfare in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed-wire entanglements |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, assassinated in Sarajevo, starting WWI |
| Selective Service Act | Required all men 21 to 30 to register for the draft. Used a lottery system to pick draftees. |
| General John "Blackjack" Pershing | Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War One |
| Alvin C York | Conscientious objector, who later joined the war. Single handedly killed 28 and captured 132 German soldiers during the Battle of the Argonne Forest. |
| Woodrow Wilson | President during World War One who tried to avoid involvement in the war. |
| Communism | a way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products (such as land, oil, factories, ships, etc.) and there is no privately owned property |
| Argonne Forest | Battle in which the Germans finally started to crumble to American forces and retreated |
| Espionage Act | Made it illegal to aid the enemy, give false reports, or interfere with the war effort |
| Propaganda | The spreading of ideas about an institution or individual for the purpose of influencing opinion |
| Armistice | A temporary agreement to end fighting |
| Stalemate | a contest, dispute, competition, etc., in which neither side can gain an advantage or win |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | Germany using submarines to sink without warning any ship they found in the waters around Britain, Main cause for US entry into World War One |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace Treaty to end the Great War, attended by 27 nations. Set seeds for WWII. US did not sign it. |
| Zimmerman Telegram | Telegram from Germany to Mexico, promising to help Mexico recover lost territory if it attacked US, and returning to unrestricted submarine warfare |
| Sedition Act | Made it illegal to speak against the war publicly. |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's proposal for peace after the war, including the creation of the League of Nations. |
| Reparations | Money Germany had to pay for loosing World War One |
| League of Nationa | An international organization of nations whose purpose was to prevent war |
| Tanks | New technology used to break the stalemate of trench warfare |
| Mustard Gas | Chemical agent used by Germany in WWI to break the stalemate of trench warfare |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary Empire and the Ottoman Empire |
| Allied Powers | England, France, Italy, and the United States |
| American Expeditionary Force | American army sent to fight in Europe during WWI |
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