Question | Answer |
Militarism | glorification of military strength |
no-man's-land | strip of bombed out territory that separated the trenches of opposing armies in WWI |
trench warfare | military strategy of defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches |
Franz Ferdinand | The Archduke was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated -start of the War |
Gavrilo Princip | Assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife |
Allied Powers | Britain, France, Russia,Italy |
Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria |
Convoy system | use of armed vessels to escort unarmed merchant vessels transporting troops, supplies or volunteers |
Sussex pledge | German pledge not to sink liners without warning |
Robert Lansing | US Secretary of State that encouraged the trade of war materials with the Allies |
National Defense Act | almost doubled the number of soldiers in the regular army |
Zimmerman Note | Cable note sent from German foreign minister Zimmerman to Mexico proposing an alliance |
Jeannette Rankin | Representative from Montana who opposed the war |
Selective Service Act | required men between the ages of 18-45 to register with their local draft boards |
John j Pershing | Experienced General that lead the American Expeditionary Force to France |
William McAdoo | Secretary of the Treasury under President Wilson that declared anyone who did not support the bond effort was a friend of Germany |
Food Administration | war board that regulated the production and supply of food |
Herbert Hoover | appointed by Herbert Hoover to head the Food Administration |
War Industries Board | Coordinated all other boards |
Bernard Baruch | Director of the War Industries Board |
National War Labor Board | arbitrated disputes between workers and employers |
Harriot Stanton Blatch | she headed the Food Administration's Speakers'Bureau |
Juliette Gordon Low | Founder of the Girl scouts of America |
Great Migration | the movement of African Americans from the South to the North between 1915-1930 |
Committee of Public Information | led a propaganda campaign to encourage Americans to support the war |
Espionage Act | Federal law that outlawed acts of treason during world war I |
Sedition Act | Federal Law during WWI that made written criticism of the government a crime |
Bolsheviks | Group of radical Russian socialists |
Battle of the Argonne Forest | Battle in which America suffered 120,000 casualties |
Fourteen points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace |
League of Nations | International body designed to prevent offensive wars |
Big Four | United States, France, Italy, Great Britain |
David Lloyd George | British Prime minister- |
Georges Clemenceau | French Premier |
Vittorio Orlando | Italian Prime Minister |
Treaty of Versailles | Peace treaty that ended WWI |
Henry Cabot Lodge | Head of Senate Committee on Foreign relations, led the reservationists |