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U-boats | a German submarine used in World War I or World War II. |
Lusitania | a British ocean liner and briefly the world's largest passenger ship. |
Selective Service Act | 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription. |
Zimmerman Telegram | a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizo |
Fourteen Points | a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. |
Treaty of Versailles | the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers |
French Warfare | . France and England - later Great Britain - were at war, on and off, from 1689 to 1815. |
League of Nations | an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first international organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace |
Espionage and Sedition Acts | 1917 is a United States federal law passed on June 15, 1917, shortly after the U.S. entry into World War I. It has been amended numerous times over the years. It was originally found in Title 50 of the U.S. Code but is now found under Title 18, Crime. |