Section 1
Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
What is Nationalism
The first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War and ceased operations on 20 April 1946.
What is the League of Nations
A member of a small independent group taking part in irregular fighting, typically against larger regular forces.
What is Guerrilla
A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose.
What is Allies
The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
What is Espionage
Goods that have been imported or exported illegally.
What is Contraband
A vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war.
What is a Victory Garden
A German submarine used in World War I or World War II.
What is a U-Boat
The promotion of widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. The name refers to the red flags that the communists use.
What is the Red Scare
The most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles
The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
What is Reparations
A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram
A war bond that was sold in the United States to support the Allied cause in World War I. Subscribing to the bonds became a symbol of patriotic duty in the United States and introduced the idea of financial securities to many citizens for the first time.
What is a Liberty Bond
A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.
What is the Fourteen Points
A United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department and the Navy Department.
What is the War Industries Board
The level of prices relating to a range of everyday items.
What is the Cost of Living.
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is Propaganda
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.
What is an Armistice
A separate peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers, that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk