5th Grade Social Studies
World War 1 Vocabulary
Mrs. Thornburg’s version
Vocabulary Terms in 5th Grade
Social Studies: World War 1
Alliance
Militarism
Rations
Isolationism
Boom
Mass Production
Division of Labor
Prohibition
Nationalism
Trench Warfare
Propaganda
Armistice
Assembly Line
Stock
Stock Market
What do we call fast economic growth?
Boom
What do we call an arrangement of workers, machines, and
equipment in which the product being made passes from
worker to worker until completed?
Assembly Line
What do we call a place where people buy and sell
stocks?
Stock Market
What do we call devotion to the culture and
interests of a particular nation?
Nationalism
What do we call glorification of military spirit and
ideas?
Militarism
What do we call a formal agreement or union
between nations, organizations, or individuals?
Alliance
What do we call a war fought from ditches dug in
the ground?
Trench warfare
What do we call limits on consumption of food and
goods?
Rations
What do we call material distributed for the purposes of
winning people over to a given doctrine, often without
regard to fairness or truth?
Propaganda
What do we call an agreement between two
armies to stop fighting; a truce?
Armistice
What do we call the policy that a nation should avoid
political and economic relationships with other countries?
Isolationism
What do we call a share of ownership in a
company?
Stock
What do we call the act of forbidding something?
Prohibition
What do we call making many identical products at
once?
Mass Production
What do we call the act of dividing a big project
into smaller tasks and assigning each to a different
worker?
Division of Labor