WWI Vocabulary

state of being prepared for or seeking war

• militarism

• alliance

• imperialism

• nationalism

wanting to stay out of world events

• rations

• nationalism

• isolationism

• armistice

government set limits on the amount of goods and food people could have

• propaganda

• rations

• alliance

• trench warfare

an agreement to stop fighting

• rations

• Woodrow Wilson

• alliance

• armistice

the president who declared war on the Central Powers

• William McKinley

• Woodrow Wilson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

an agreement nations make to support and defend each other

• armistice

• rations

• alliance

• propaganda

the belief that your country deserves more success than others

• imperialism

• nationalism

• isolationism

• militarism

fighting from long narrow ditches

• rations

• Lusitania

• trench warfare

• armistice

information to promote an idea or cause

• armistice

• propaganda

• alliance

• militarism

A Bristish passenger ship with manu Americans on board that German u-boats blew up

• USS Maine

• USS Tiger

• Lusitania

• Bosnis