Chapter 21 Section 1
Terms
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- militarism
- glorification of the military
- nationalism
- Pride in one's country
- stalemate
- deadlock
- trench warfare
- soldiers fire on one another from opposing lines of dugout trenches
- propaganda
- the spread of information designed to win support for a cause
- allied powers
- Great Britain, France, Russia
- central powers
- Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
- Zimmerman Telegram
- Telegram sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
- Lusitania
- British boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI
- mobilize
- to prepare for war
- Jeannette Rankin
- first woman elected to Congress, was against war.
- illiterate
- unable to read or write
- Herbert Hoover
- head of Food Administration, supplied food supplies for troops
- Eugene V. Debs
- candidate of the Socialist Party
- convoy
- a large group of merchant vessels sailing together
- John J. Pershing
- commanded the American Expeditionary Force, insisted that soldiers fight in separate units
- Vladimir Lenin
- intended to set Russia on the road to communism
- communism
- an economic and political system based on the idea that social classes and the right to private property should be eliminated
- armistice
- a halt in fighting that allows peace talks to begin
- self-determination
- the right of a group to decide its own form of government
- reparations
- payments to cover war damages
- Henry Cabot Lodge
- Republican, chuef objection was to the proposal that the U.S. join the League of Nations
- deported
- returned to their home countries
- Treaty of Versailles
- Forced Germany to accept full responsibility for the war
- Fourteen Points
- President Wilson's peace plan intended to prevent future wars
- Food Administration
- created to ensure adequate food supplies for civilians and troops
- War Industries Board
- Set up by Wilson to oversee the shift to war production; told industries what to produce and how much to charge