WWI Vocabulary

foreign policy of staying neutral; not getting into other country’s affairs

• Isolationism

• Militarism

• Big Stick Policy

building up of a country’s army

• isolationism

• militarism

• nationalism

agreeing to take care of or fight with another country

• militarism

• nationalism

• alliances

• imperialism

political, military, and economic domination of strong nations over weaker territories

• mitlitarism

• alliances

• imperialism

• nationalism

having pride in one’s country

• nationalism

• patriotism

• imperialism

U.S., France, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, Japan

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers

British submarine that was sunk by German U-Boats; 128 Americans died

• unrestricted warfare

• Lusitania

• Titanic

Germany’s practice of sinking ships that aided the Allies; major cause of the U.S. getting into WWI

• unrestricted warfare

• blizkrieg

• trench warfare

passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service

• National Defense Act

• Selective Service Act

• National Army Growth Act