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Head of the US Food Administration during World War I
Herbert Hoover
American citizens were lending money to the government to pay for the war.
Liberty Bonds
An agreement to stop fighting
Armistice
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country.
Nationlism
Battle in which French soldiers defeated the Germans during World War I, causing the Germans to retreat and abandon their Schlieffen Plan; occurred at a river in France; a second battle also happened at the Marne River
Battle of Marne
Leader of Germany during WWI.
Whilhelm II
A female clerk, typist, bookkeepers, assembly line workers in the navy
Yeomanettes
The day that Germany signed Armistice ending WWI
Nov 11, 1918
(1863-1914) Heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination in Sarajevo set in motion the events that started World War
Francis Ferdinand
A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.
Western Front
Great Britain, France, and Russia, Serbia, later joined by the US
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
Propaganda
Triple Entente
An alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia.
Triple Alliance
An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
A stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border. Needed for supplies.
Eastern Front
A world organization was established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.
League of Nations
An administration created to feed wartime America and its allies.
Food Administration
A government organization that produced propaganda to build support for the war
Committee of Public Information
The Central Powers planned to conquer the Allies in the West before moving to the East to defeat Russia.
Schiefer Plan
The alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary during World War I, later joined by the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
Central Powers
Leader of France at the end of World War I; one of the "Big Four" who worked on the Treaty of Versailles
Gerorges Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
One of the "Big Four" who worked on the Treaty of Versailles; wanted a League of Nations to help keep peace among nations
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
Treaty of Versailles
British prime minister who was one of the "Big Four" to discuss the Treaty of Versailles to end World War I
David Lloyd George
Leader of Italy at the end of World War I; one of the "Big Four" who worked on the Treaty of Versailles
Vitorio Orlando