Imperialism & World War I Review

Person or company involved in buying and selling goods for profit

• merchant

• foreign establishments

• Anglo-Saxon

• mobilize

Overseas colonies or naval bases that could support American ships

• foreign establishments

• diplomatic influence

• prestige

• annex

Term used to describe English-speaking people of European descent

• Anglo-Saxon

• armistice

• annex

• imperialism

Government agency that organized factory production and supplies during WWI

• War Industries Board

• Fuel Administration

• Food Administration

• War Labor Board

Short-term loans that citizens made to the government to pay for WWI 

• war bonds

• draft

• mobilize

• commerce

A law requiring people of a certain age to serve in the military, ex: Selective Service Act, used by the US during WWI

• draft

• annex

• infrastructure

• diplomacy

An agreement to stop fighting while peace terms are negotiated

• armistice

• annex

• foreign entanglements

• propaganda

To prepare military forces and supplies for war

• foreign policy

• ratify

• annex

• mobilize

Involvement in other nations’ conflicts or alliances that could pull a country into war

• foreign entanglements

• isolationism

• propaganda

• infrastructure

International agreement in 1928 promising nations would not use war to settle disputes

• Kellogg-Briand Pact

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Paris

• League of Nations