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