Imperialism & Diplomacy
This is the general term for the policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
What is Imperialism?
This fundamental cause of WWI refers to agreements between nations to defend each other in case of attack.
What are Entangling Alliances?
This act, passed by Congress in 1917, established the system of conscription to rapidly raise a national army.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This German weapon, the submarine, was crucial in carrying out unrestricted warfare and violating international law.
What is a U-Boat?
This President was a key advocate of developing an international organization and creating the treaty that formally ended World War I.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This Central American construction was completed to allow the U.S. Navy and commercial vessels a rapid path between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
What is the Purpose of the Panama Canal?
This was the name of the alliance between Britain, France, and Russia during WWI.
What is the Triple Entente (Allied Powers)?
This government organization was responsible for using propaganda like posters and pamphlets to generate support for the war.
What is the Committee on Public Information?
British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.
What is Lustitania?
This was the name of the international organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson to promote peace and prevent future wars.
What is the League of Nations?
What is this?: Fought between Spain and the United States in 1898. It began with the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in Cuba, and resulted in the U.S. acquiring sovereignty over Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, and establishing a protectorate over Cuba.
What is the Spanish-American War?
This was the name of the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy (initially) during WWI.
What is the Triple Alliance (Central Powers)?
How did the United States government raise money to help finance the war?
What are Liberty Loans/ Increase in Taxes?
This was the nickname given to the American soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).
Who are the Doughboys?
This plan, consisting of key points, outlined President Wilson's vision for post-war peace and stability.
What are Wilson's 14 Points?
This term refers to the way a nation handles its international relationships, which Wilson favored doing openly after WWI.
What is Diplomacy?
This aggressive Serbian nationalist act on June 28, 1914, served as the immediate spark for the start of WWI.
What is the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This government agency was responsible for coordinating the production of war materials and regulating all U.S. industrial output during WWI.
What is the War Industries Board?
This fighting style involved opposing armies defending static, fortified ditches, leading to a long and bloody stalemate.
What is Trench Warfare?
This treaty officially ended WWI and included harsh reparations and a war guilt clause imposed on Germany.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Though not on the study guide, the Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of this earlier doctrine, stating the U.S. could intervene in Latin American affairs.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
America’s policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries prior to 1917.
What is Isolationism?
This home front group took on jobs in factories, served as nurses abroad, and provided essential support, leading to increased political recognition for their efforts.
What is Women's role in WWI?
A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office on January 17, 1917, proposed a military contract between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
The U.S. return to isolationism and the Senate's rejection of the Treaty of Versailles are considered part of these long-term outcomes of WWI.
What are the Legacies of WWI?