Agenda: WWI Vocabulary Spiral Test Happy Tuesday Agenda: WWI Vocabulary Spiral Test CBA (For a grade) Nov. 15 WWI Test Nov. 17

World War I Key Terms 15. self–determination 16. Wilson’s Fourteen Points 17. reparations 18. League of Nations 19. Isolationism 20. Sergeant Alvin C. York 21. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) 22. John Pershing 23. Treaty of Versailles 24. Selective Service Act 25. Herbert Hoover 26. Liberty Bonds 27. Sedition Act mobilization Allies Central Powers stalemate propaganda U-boats The sinking of the Lusitania Zimmerman Note Convoy autocrat Russian Revolution Great Migration armistice genocide

MOBILIZATION The readying of troops

Information intended to sway public opinion PROPAGANDA Information intended to sway public opinion

Payment from an enemy for economic injury suffered during a war REPARATION Payment from an enemy for economic injury suffered during a war

STALEMATE Situation in which neither side in a conflict is able to gain the advantage

The power to make decisions about one’s own future SELF-DETERMINATION The power to make decisions about one’s own future

LEAGUE OF NATIONS An organization in which the nations of the world join together to ensure security and peace for all its memebers

SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT Law passed in 1917 authorizing a draft of young men for military service in WWI

WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS President Wilson’s proposal in 1918 for postwar European peace

SEDITION ACTS Made it illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything “disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive”

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION Collapse of the Czar’s government in Russian in 1917, after which the Russian monarch was replaced with a republican government

ARMISTICE A cease fire or truce

TREATY OF VERSAILLES 1919 treaty that ended WWI

LIBERTY BONDS A special war bond sold by the government to support the Allied cause during WWI

U-BOATS A German Submarine

ISOLATIONISM Policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries

SERGEANT ALVIN YORK Faced German machine gun, killed 25 machine gunner with rifle & pistol & captured 132 German soldiers

ZIMMERMAN NOTE Telegram sent by Germany’s foreign secretary in 1917 to Mexican officials proposing an alliance with Mexico & promising U.S. territory if Mexico declared war on U.S.

Organized killing of an entire people GENOCIDE Organized killing of an entire people

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire CENTRAL POWERS Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire

German floating airships ZEPPELINS German floating airships

Leader of AEF during WWI JOHN J PERSHING Leader of AEF during WWI

Worked to aid Europeans during WWI HERBERT HOOVER Worked to aid Europeans during WWI

Russia, France, Serbia, & Great Britain ALLIES Russia, France, Serbia, & Great Britain

AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES Name given to American troops in Europe during WWI

Ruler with unlimited power AUTOCRAT Ruler with unlimited power

LUSITANIA British passenger liner sunk by German U-Boat which left 128 Americans dead

CONVOY Group of unarmed ships surrounded by a ring of destroyers, torpedo boats and other armed naval vessels