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World War 1
World War 1 Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trench Warfare | Fighting that lead to many losses for minimal land gain |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | Germany said they would sink any ship hostile or neutral in German waters. |
| Zimmerman Note | Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico; it was intercepted by the British. |
| Selective Service Act | Required all men 18 or older to register to be randomly selected for military service |
| Convoy System | To safely escort merchant ships |
| Conscientious Objector | Someone who opposes war for moral reasons |
| Total War | Everything a country does is dedicated to the war effort |
| War Industries Board | Set production quotas and allocated raw materials |
| Propaganda | One sided information intended to persuade |
| War Bonds/Liberty Bonds | Essentially, people loaned money to the government for the war effort by buying these |
| Committee on Public Information | America's first propaganda agency; created to "sell" the war to the public |
| Espionage and Sedition Acts | Said a person could be fined 10,000 dollars and sentenced to 20 years in prison for saying anything negative about the war |
| Great Migration | Large Scale movement of African Americans from the South to North to find work and escape racial persecution |
| Self-Determination | Choosing for yourself what government you want to be ruled under. |