World War I Key Terms
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mobilization
Allies
Central Powers
stalemate
propaganda
U-boats
The sinking of the Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
Convoy
autocrat
Russian Revolution
Great Migration
armistice
genocide
15. self–determination
16. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
17. reparations
18. League of Nations
19. Isolationism
20. Sergeant Alvin C. York
21. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
22. John Pershing
23. Treaty of Versailles
24. Selective Service Act
25. Herbert Hoover
26. Liberty Bonds
27. Sedition Act
MOBILIZATION
•The readying of troops
PROPAGANDA
•Information intended to sway
public opinion
REPARATION
•Payment from an enemy for
economic injury suffered during a
war
STALEMATE
Situation in which neither side in a
conflict is able to gain the
advantage
SELF-DETERMINATION
The power to make decisions
about one’s own future
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
An organization in which the
nations of the world join together
to ensure security and peace for all
its memebers
SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT
Law passed in 1917 authorizing a
draft of young men for military
service in WWI
WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS
President Wilson’s proposal in
1918 for postwar European peace
SEDITION ACTS
Made it illegal to obstruct the sale
of Liberty Bonds or to discuss
anything “disloyal, profane,
scurrilous, or abusive”
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Collapse of the Czar’s government
in Russian in 1917, after which the
Russian monarch was replaced
with a republican government
ARMISTICE
A cease fire or truce
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
1919 treaty that ended WWI
LIBERTY BONDS
A special war bond sold by the
government to support the Allied
cause during WWI
U-BOATS
A German Submarine
ISOLATIONISM
Policy of avoiding political or
economic alliances with foreign
countries
SERGEANT ALVIN YORK
Faced German machine gun, killed
25 machine gunner with rifle &
pistol & captured 132 German
soldiers
ZIMMERMAN NOTE
Telegram sent by Germany’s foreign
secretary in 1917 to Mexican officials
proposing an alliance with Mexico &
promising U.S. territory if Mexico
declared war on U.S.
GENOCIDE
Organized killing of an entire
people
CENTRAL POWERS
Germany, Austria-Hungary,
Ottoman Empire
ZEPPELINS
German floating airships
JOHN J PERSHING
Leader of AEF during WWI
HERBERT HOOVER
Worked to aid Europeans during
WWI
ALLIES
Russia, France, Serbia, & Great
Britain
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
Name given to American troops in
Europe during WWI
AUTOCRAT
Ruler with unlimited power
LUSITANIA
British passenger liner sunk by
German U-Boat which left 128
Americans dead