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

2. 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

3. MOBILIZATION
The readying of troops

4. Information intended to sway public opinion
PROPAGANDA
Information intended to sway public opinion

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. ARMISTICE
A cease fire or truce

14. TREATY OF VERSAILLES
1919 treaty that ended WWI

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

16. U-BOATS
A German Submarine

17. ISOLATIONISM
Policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries

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

19. 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.

20. Organized killing of an entire people
GENOCIDE
Organized killing of an entire people

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

22. German floating airships
ZEPPELINS
German floating airships

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

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

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

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

27. Ruler with unlimited power
AUTOCRAT
Ruler with unlimited power

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

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