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World War I Key Terms1. mobilization
2. Allies
3. Central Powers
4. stalemate
5. propaganda
6. U-boats
7. The sinking of the Lusitania
8. Zimmerman Note
9. Convoy
10.autocrat
11.Russian Revolution
12.Great Migration
13.armistice
14.genocide
15. self–determination
16. Wilson’s Fourteen Points
17. reparations
18. League of Nations
19. Isolationism
20. Sergeant Alvin C. York
21. American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
22. John Pershing
23. Treaty of Versailles
24. Selective Service Act
25. Herbert Hoover
26. Liberty Bonds
27. Sedition Act
MOBILIZATION
•The readying of troops
PROPAGANDA
•Information intended to sway public opinion
REPARATION
•Payment from an enemy for economic injury
suffered during a war
STALEMATE
Situation in which neither side in a conflict is able to
gain the advantage
SELF-DETERMINATION
The power to make decisions about one’s own
future
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
An organization in which the nations of the world join
together to ensure security and peace for all its memebers
SELECTIVE SERVICE ACT
Law passed in 1917 authorizing a draft of
young men for military service in WWI
WILSON’S FOURTEEN POINTS
President Wilson’s proposal in 1918 for
postwar European peace
SEDITION ACTS
Made it illegal to obstruct the sale of Liberty Bonds or to discuss anything “disloyal,
profane, scurrilous, or abusive”
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Collapse of the Czar’s government in Russian in 1917,
after which the Russian monarch was replaced with a republican
government
ARMISTICE
A cease fire or truce
TREATY OF VERSAILLES
1919 treaty that ended WWI
LIBERTY BONDS
A special war bond sold by the government to support
the Allied cause during WWI
U-BOATS
A German Submarine
ISOLATIONISM
Policy of avoiding political or economic alliances with
foreign countries
SERGEANT ALVIN YORK
Faced German machine gun, killed 25 machine gunner
with rifle & pistol & captured 132 German soldiers
ZIMMERMAN NOTE
Telegram sent by Germany’s foreign secretary in 1917 to Mexican
officials proposing an alliance with Mexico & promising U.S. territory if
Mexico declared war on U.S.
GENOCIDE
Organized killing of an entire people
CENTRAL POWERS
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
ZEPPELINS
German floating airships
JOHN J PERSHING
Leader of AEF during WWI
HERBERT HOOVER
Worked to aid Europeans during WWI
ALLIES
Russia, France, Serbia, & Great Britain
AMERICAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCES
Name given to American troops in Europe during
WWI
AUTOCRAT
Ruler with unlimited power
LUSITANIA
British passenger liner sunk by German U-Boat
which left 128 Americans dead