WWI Vocabulary

An agreement to stop fighting

• Alliances

• Armistice

• Imperialism

• Zimmerman Telegram

This was sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Trench Warfare

• Balkan Peninsula

A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.

• Nationalists

• Militarism

• Lusitania

• Stalemate

Germany's Policy of sinking ships with their U-boats, enemy or neutral, that carry war material

• Eastern Front

• Trench Warfare

• Nationalism

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

Not favoring either side in a dispute

• Eastern Front

• Neutral

• Balkan Peninsula

• Dislike

In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.

• Nationalists

• Eastern Front

• Western Front

• Stalemate

In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.

• Eastern Front

• Trench Warfare

• Submarine Warfare

• Westerm Front

A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

• nationalist

• Stalemate

• imperialism

• nationalism

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

Stalemate

A deadlock in which

• Trench Warfare

• Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Balkan Peninsula

A person who advocates political independence for a country

• Archduke Franz Ferdinand

• imperialist

• armistice

• nationalist