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WWI (6th grade)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| militarism | the aggressive strengthening of armed forces |
| mobilize | preparing a country's military for war |
| Central Powers | the alliance between Austria-Hungary and Germany during WWI |
| Allied Powers | France, Russia, and Britain during WWI |
| trench warfare | defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches |
| stalemate | a situation in which neither side can win a decisive victory |
| U-boats | submarines that launched torpedoes against Allied supply ships, causing heavy loss, and even neutral ships that they thought were helping the Allies |
| Lusitania | a British passenger liner, sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. About 1,200 people were killed, including 128 Americans. |
| Zimmerman Note | This secret telegram to Mexico sent by the German foreign minister, Arthur Zimmerman, proposing alliance against the US. Outraged Americans and led US to join the war. |
| Selective Service Act | in 1917, this act required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted. |
| Liberty Bonds | the sale of these war bonds provided billions of dollars in loans to the Allies. |
| American Expeditionary Force | French and British generals called for immediate help on the front lines and wanted U.S. troops to join French and British units. |
| Communists | people who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property. |
| League of Nations | an international assembly of nations that was the final of Wilson's fourteen points |
| Treaty of Versailles | the peace settlement of WWI which made Germany pay for war damages |
| Germany | last nation to surrender to Allied Forces in 1918 |
| Selective Service Act | passed in 1917 and required men between the ages of 21-30 to register to be drafted |
| convoy system | helped the Allies by allowing destroyers to escort and protect groups of Allied merchant ships. |
| flu epidemic | a deadly post-war disease that killed more people than died in the war; killed 800,000 Americans |
| labor shortage | New England factories employed women as people from South and West during WWI due to this |
| Trigger for WWI | killing of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Francis-Ferdinand by Serbian nationalists |
| Fourteen points | Wilson's list of proposals for postwar peace |
| nationalism | people with shared language/culture wanted to unite, which led to instability in Europe |
| American Expeditionary Force | U.S. troops fighting in Europe during WWI, under command of General Pershing |
| Armistice | truce that ended active warfare and paved the way for a peace treaty |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Republican leader in the US Senate who fought against ratifying the Treaty of Versailles without changes to League of Nations |
| imperialism | a country's desire to expand to new territories to build an empire |
| alliances | the formation of these caused rifts to form between large groups of countries; a local conflict could easily result into a global one |
| Causes of WWI | Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism, and Alliances |
| reparations | payment of $33 billion for war damages that Germany was forced to pay |
| casualties of WWI | more than 8+ million soldiers died and more than 20+ million were wounded |
| new war technology | machine guns, artillery guns, poison gas, tanks, airplanes |
| National War Labor Board | agency formed in 1918 to help settle labor disputes and avoid strikes during the war |
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