Key Terms
This term refers to an ideology and movement based on the belief that a nation's interests are of primary importance, leading to strong loyalty and devotion to one's country
What is nationalism?
This event on June 28, 1914, directly triggered the chain of declarations that started World War I.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These German machines were used to sink both enemy and neutral ships transporting goods to allied countries.
What are unterseebooten (U-Boats)?
This name was given to the trenches' dangerous area between opposing lines.
What is "no man's land"?
This agency, headed by Herbert Hoover, organized food conservation and campaigns like “meatless Mondays” during the war.
What is the Food Administration?
This is a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
What is isolationism?
These are the names of the two alliance systems that divided most of Europe before WWI.
What are the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente/Allies?
This was President Wilson's policy at the war’s outbreak in Europe in 1914.
What is neutrality?
General John "Black Jack" Pershing led this group into Europe.
Who is the American Expeditionary Force (AEF)?
This 1917 law authorized the U.S. military draft for WWI.
What is the Selective Service Act?
This term refers to the profession, activity, or skill of managing international relations, typically by a country's representatives abroad.
What is diplomacy?
This German leader’s pursuit of empire and naval power heightened tensions with Great Britain.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
This British action interfered with U.S. trade and pushed American sentiment toward the Allies.
What is the blockade of German ports?
This U.S. Black regiment (nickname) spent 191 days in combat and won high praise from the French.
Who are the Harlem Hellfighters?
Organized crime rose in the 1920s as a direct result of this.
What is Prohibition (18th amendment)?
This was the term for the promise of unconditional support given to Austria-Hungary by Germany prior to WWI.
What is the blank cheque?
This country's withdrew from the war in 1917 which shifted the Germany's focus to the western front.
What is Russia?
This British passenger liner sunk in 1915 by a German U-boat that killed 128 Americans aboard and provoked U.S. protest.
What is the Lusitania?
These people were the target of the Palmer Raids.
Who are communists (or Bolsheviks)?
This trial became a microcosm of the growing divide between wealthy, urban, educated Americans and poor, rural, uneducated Americans.
What is the Scopes Monkey Trial?
This court case during the Red Scare created the "clear and present danger" test for limiting free speech.
What is Schenck v the United States?
In 1916–17, this Mexican revolutionary led raids into U.S. territory, prompting a punitive U.S. expedition led by General Pershing.
Who is Pancho Villa?
This communication between Germany and Mexico was revealed to the public in 1917 led to public opinion supporting entering the war.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
The most significant point of Wilson's 14 points was not approved by the Senate, despite passing the Paris Peace Conference.
What is the League of Nations?
This was the largest agricultural tariff in US History which passed in 1930.
What is the Hawley-Smooth tariff?