History
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35 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Sussex Pledge | The United States threatened to cut diplomatic ties to Germany |
| Versailles Treaty | On June 28, the great powers signed the treaty at Versailles, the former home of French kings, outside of Paris |
| Allies | Russia, France, Serbia, and Great Britain |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's program for reaching these goals came to be called the Fourteen Points, for the number of provisions it contained. Wilson's first point called for an end to entangling alliances |
| Reparations | Payment for economic injury suffered during a war |
| League of Nations | An organization in which the nations of the world would join together to ensure security and peace for all its members |
| Mobilization | The readying of troops for war |
| Espionage/Sedition Act | (Sedition is any speech or action that encourages rebellion.) The Sedition Act made it illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive" about the American form of government, the Constitution, or the army and the navy |
| Armistice | Cease-fire |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| Genocide | The organized killing of an entire people |
| Militarism | This policy involved aggressively building up a nation's armed forces in preparation for war and giving the military more authority over the government and foreign policy |
| Alliances | A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force |
| Imperialism | Taking over of one's country |
| Nationalism | Pride to one's country |
| Liberty Bonds | Special war bonds to support the Allied cause |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | -Austria Hungary killed by Gavrilo Princip who was a Bosnian Nationalist -Ignited WWI |
| Zimmerman Telegram | -Intercepted by the British -Germany asked Mexico to attack the US in exchange for US land |
| German U-Boat | Short for Unterseeboot, or submarine, was a terrifying new weapon that changed the rules of naval warfare |
| Lusitania | On May 7, 1915, when a U-boat sighted the Lusitania, a British passenger liner, in the Irish Sea, the U-boat fired at the Lusitania |
| Stalemate | A situation in which neither side is able to gain the advantage |
| Convoy System | A convoy consisted of a group of unarmed ships surrounded by a ring of destroyers, torpedo boats, and other armed naval vessels equipped with hydrophones to track and destroy submarines |
| Harlem Hell Fighters | First all-black U.S. combat unit to be shipped overseas during WWI |
| The Great Migration | The movement of 6 million blacks out of the Southern United States to the Northeast |
| Irreconcilables | Bitter opponents of the Treaty of Versailles in the United States in 1919 |
| Reservationists | -Accepted the League of Nations -Wanted restrictions on US involvement |
| Selective Service Act | -authorized a draft of young men for the military -24 million registered and 3 million selected |
| President Woodrow Wilson | Fourteen Points -Wilson's plan for peace (end secret treaties, reduce military force, increase trade, and alliances) |
| Preparedness Movement | British supporters wanted the US to be ready for war |
| Russian Revolution | Nicholas is replaced by a republican government; a roadblock for the US to join Russia is removed |
| Battle of Chateau-Thierry | US Marine Corps stopped the German army attacks |
| War Industries Board | Oversaw US War Production |
| British Propaganda | Information intended to sway public opinion, that spread throughout the United States |
| Influenza Epidemic | Killed more soldiers than the actual war (30 million world wide) |
| Women's role during WWI | they replaced workers in factories, farms, letter carriers, elevator operators |
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