World War 1 vocabulary

Policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war. glorification of war and military power

• Nationalism
• Lusitania
• Militarism
• Imperialism

ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. Governments often released censored information to maintain morale and support for their war effort.

• Allainces
• Lusitania
• Total War
• Propaganda

The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand.

• Gavrilo Princip
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• George Clemenceau
• Schlieffen Plan

This was sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.

• Triple Entente
• Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Zimmerman Telegram
• Imperialislm

British passenger boat sunk by a German submarine that claimed 128 American lives. One of main reasons Amereica decided to join the war.

• Militarism
• Rationing
• Lusitanta
• Allied Powers

The idea that your national culture and interests are superior to any other.

• Imperialism
• Militarism
• Rationing
• Nationalism

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military

• Armistice
• Lusitania
• Nationalism
• Rationing

An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI.

• Triple Alliance
• George Clemenceau
• Trench Warfare
• Triple Entente

In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies.

• Total War
• Fourteen Points
• Central Powers
• Allied Powers

two or more countries joining together

• Armistice
• Allied Powers
• Allainces
• Total War