WWI Vocabulary

Plan for post war peace; no secret treaties; freedom of the seas; removal of economic barriers; and reduction of arms

• Treaty of Versaille

• Allies

• WWI Causes

• Wilson's 14 Points

War from inside trenches; machine guns, tanks, and poisonous gases are used

• unrestricted warfare

• stalemate

• trench warfare

• militarism

Agreements between countries to support one another against enemies

• Nationalism

• Alliances

• Unrestricted warfare

• Wilson's 14 Points

British passenger ship that was sunk by Germany. Americans died. This pushed Americans more towards entering the war.

• Trench Warfare

• Unrestricted submarine warfare

• Stalemate

• Lusitania

Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21-30 to register for the military draft

• Imperialism

• Militarism

• Nationalism

• Selective Service

Deadlock in which neither side is strong enough to defeat the other

• Alliances

• Stalemate

• Withdrawal

• Militarism

Nationalism, imperialism, militarism, creation of alliances, immediate cause: assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.

• WWII Causes

• Cold War Causes

• WWI Causes

• Trench Warfare

Ended WWI; imposed on Germany by the Allied powers

• Treaty of Versailles

• Wilson's 14 Points

• Zimmerman telegram

• Trench warfare

Use of submarines to skink without warning any ship found in enemy's waters

• Stalemate

• Militarism

• Natinalism

• Unrestricted submarine warfare

Sense of pride in one's own country

• Alliances

• Allies

• Nationalism

• Militarism