WWI Vocabulary Terms

Pride in one’s ethnic group or nation.

• militarism

• nationalism

• assassination

• alliances

Deadlock, in which neither side in a battle could score a clear victory.

• stalemate

• trench warfare

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• armistice

Soldiers fire on one another from opposing lines of dugout trenches.

• stalemate

• Fourteen Points

• unrestricted submarine warfare

• Trench warfare

German submarines used to blockade Britain during the war.

• Panzer tank

• flame thrower

• U-boat

• Aircraft carrier

Military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

• Triple Entente

• Central Powers

• Triple Alliance

• Allied Powers

Archduke that was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. He was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist, which sparked the start of World War I. 

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franz Ferdinand

• Vladimir Lenin

• David Lloyd George

Compulsory (unavoidable) recruitment (enlistment) for military service.

• draft

• pacifist

• militarism

• nationalism

To prepare for war.

• pacifist

• trench warfare

• mobilize

• espionage

Head of the new Food Administration, which assured adequate food supplies for both civilians and troops. Hoover urged Americans to conserve valuable food resources. 

• Herbert Hoover

• Woodrow Wilson

• Franz Ferdinand

• Arthur Zimmerman

To renounce (give up)  one’s throne. 

• epidemic

• reparation

• abdicate

• imperialism