Vocabulary & Key Terms
This is a temporary suspension of fighting.
What is an Armistice?
This system was used in the U.S. to draft young men into military service.
What is the Selective Service?
This was a key event that sparked WWI, fueled by a rise in nationalism in Europe.
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This peace plan was put forth by President Wilson after WWI.
What were the Fourteen Points?
This new type of naval vessel was a key part of Germany's strategy to sink Allied supply ships.
What are U-boats or submarines?
This is the name for the movement of over 6 million African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North, Midwest, and West starting in 1916.
What is the Great Migration?
These acts limited the ability of citizens to criticize the government or the war.
What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
This was a major threat to Allied shipping in the Atlantic after the U.S. entered the war.
What was German unrestricted submarine warfare?
This agreement officially ended WWI and placed harsh conditions on Germany.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
This style of warfare, which involved fighting from ditches and led to a stalemate on the Western Front, is a defining characteristic of WWI.
What is trench warfare?
The diplomatic body proposed by President Wilson to resolve international disputes was known by this name.
What is the League of Nations?
This government agency was created during WWI to generate public support for the war effort through propaganda.
What was the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
The U.S. joined WWI in this year, after both the Zimmerman Telegram and unrestricted submarine warfare.
What is 1917?
The leaders of the main Allied nations who negotiated the agreement at the end of the war were known by this name.
Who were the Big Four?
The use of new military technology like machine guns and poison gas led to this type of warfare, which is based on wearing down the enemy's resources and troops.
What is a "war of attrition"?
This message sent from Germany to Mexico proposed a military alliance against the U.S.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
One reason for the Great Migration was the availability of these in the North as men went off to war.
What were factory jobs?
This phrase describes America's new role on the global stage after WWI, transitioning from an isolationist power to a world leader.
What is "coming of age"?
This policy became popular in the U.S. again after the war, as many Americans wanted to avoid future international conflicts.
What is isolationism?
Another consequence of the Treaty of Versailles was the breaking apart of these two former allies of Germany and major empires of the 19th century.
What are the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires?
This alliance during WWI included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
What were the Central Powers?
This Supreme Court case established the principle that the government can limit free speech if it poses a "clear and present danger."
What is Schenck v. United States?
Why did the U.S. Senate ultimately reject the Treaty of Versailles and refuse to join the League of Nations?
What is the fear that joining the League would force the U.S. into future foreign wars and compromise its ability to make its own foreign policy decisions?
American women played this role on the home front during WWI to support the war effort.
What is taking on jobs in factories and shipyards?
What are the four major causes of WWI, often remembered by the acronym M.A.I.N.?
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?