Vocabulary Flashcards
Treaty of Versailles
US senate failed to ratify
14 point plan
Woodrow Wilsons plan for peace
Armistice
An agreement to stop fighting
Imperialism
Policy of powerful country’s to gain control of weaker countries
Mobilize
To prepare a nations military for war
Woodrow Wilson
Made a peace plan called the 14 points. Responsible for the formation of the League of Nations.
Zimmerman telegram
A telegram sent by the Germans to urge Mexico to attack the US in return for the lands in the southwestern US
Western front
A battle line that extends across Belgium and France
U boats
German attacks on shipping by submarines
Trench warfare
Used widely in WW1 in which soldiers of opposite sides shot at each other from ditches ( no mans land)
League of Nations
An organization of nations formed to maintain peace; USA did not join