World War I vocabulary

Making amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged

• Armistice

• Alliance

• Reparations

• Propaganda

An agreement to end fighting

• Alliance

• Reparations

• Armistice

• Propaganda

A policy that says a government will not take sides in a war

• Neutrality

• Imperialism

• Militarism

• War Bonds

A secret communication issued from the German Foreign Office that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico

• Red Scare

• Trench Warfare

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Fourteen Points

A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from a long ditch facing each other.

• Convoy System

• Trench Warfare

• War Bonds

• Red Scare

President Wilson’s goals for peace were called

• Convoy System

• Trench Warfare

• Fourteen Points

• Treaty of Versailles

This forced Germany to accept full blame for WWI.

• Fourteen Points

• Treaty of Versailles

• Armistice

• Red Scare

What is a conscription?

• cold air

• asking people if they would like to join the military

• a way of making the people of a nation join its armed forces.

Low interest loans given to the government by the people which would be repaid at a later time (an IOU)

• Reparations

• War Bonds

• Alliances

• Fourteen Points