American Neutrality And The Great War Flashcards
Central Powers
Austro-Hungarian Empire, Turkey, Germany
Allies
Britain, France, and Russia
U-boats
Submarines
Western front
The war in France and Belgium
Eastern Front
The war in Russia and Hungary
Trenches
Ditches to protect soldiers
Naval mines
Floating bombs that go off when ships bump into them
War zone
Zone surrounding Britain in which Germany declared it would sink ships
Kaiser
German head of state
Lusitania
British passenger ship sunk by German submarine
Sussex
French passenger ferry torpedoed by a German Submarine
Sussex pledge
Assurance by Germany that it would not sink merchant ships without warning and won’t sink passenger ships at all
Unrestricted submarine warfare
German decision to sink all ships in the war zone around Britain
Zimmermann telegram
Note sent by a German leader proposing that Mexico Ally with Germany against the US. In return, Germany would help Mexico reclaim land in the southwestern US