World War I Vocabulary

Alliance between France, England and Russia PRIOR to WWI aka ALLIED POWERS

• Triple Entente

• Propaganda

• Triple Alliance

• Zimmerman Telegram

Alliance between Austria-Hungary, Germany and Ottoman Empire prior to WWI aka CENTRAL POWERS

• Triple Entente

• Triple Alliance

• Versailles

• Lusitania

To spread information to promote war effort

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Propaganda

• Versailles

Passenger ship sunk by a German torpedo that caused international outrage

• Propaganda

• Zimmerman

• Versailles

• Lusitania

naval warfare - submarines attach without warning

• 14 Points

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Versailles

• League of Nations

Composed by the "Big 4" in France putting blame and punishment on Germany for the war

• 14 Points

• League of Nations

• Treaty of Versailles

• Zimmerman Telegram

Secret message from Germany to Mexico proposing alliance against the U.S.

• 14 Points

• League of Nations

• Lusitania

• Zimmerman Telegram

Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after the war

• League of Nations

• Treaty of Versailles

• Propaganda

• 14 Points

International organization proposed by Wilson's 14 Points, but the US never joined

• League of Nations

• Triple Alliance

• Lusitania

• 14 Points