The First World War - Chapter 19 Flashcards
To understand the causes of World War I, the reasons the United States entered the war in 1917, and the consequences of the war.
Law requiring men to register for military service
Selective Service Act
An international peace-keeping organization proposed by Wilson and founded in 1920
League of Nations
Building up armed forces to prepare for war
Militarism
Leader of the War Industries Board
Bernard M. Baruch
One side in World War I: Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
Message proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico
Zimmermann note
Agency to improve efficiency in war-related industries
War Industries Board
Conservative senator who wanted to keep the United States out of the League of Nations
Henry Cabot Lodge
A person who believes fighting is wrong and therefore does not want to serve in the military
Conscientious objector
Young heir whose assassination triggered the war
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
American war hero
Alvin York
Movement of many African Americans to northern cities from the South in the early 1900s
Great Migration
The commander of the American Expeditionary force
General John J. Pershing
Having merchant ships travel in groups protected by warships
Convoy system
The space between armies fighting each other
No man’s land
A devotion to the interests and culture of one’s nation
Nationalism
Part of the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany took responsibility for the war
War-guilt clause
A kind of biased communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions
Propaganda
Head of the Committee on Public Information (CPI), the government’s propaganda agency
George Creel
Famous American fighter pilot
Eddie Rickenbacker
British passenger ship attacked and sunk by Germans
Lusitania
Laws that enacted harsh penalties against anyone opposing U.S. participation in World War I
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Wilson’s plan for world peace following World War I
Fourteen Points
Truce agreement
Armistice
The 1919 treaty that ended World War I
Treaty of Versailles
One side in World War I: Great Britain, France, and Russia, later joined by the U.S.
Allies
Fighting between fortified ditches
Tench warfare
British prime minister
David Lloyd George
French premier
Georges Clemenceau
Payments made by defeated countries after a war
Reparations
The name given to the American military force that fought in World War I
American Expeditionary Force
