World War I Vocab

Alliance System

• One of the main causes of World War One.
• Made up of two groups, the Central powers.The second group was the Allied powers.
• (Germany, Austria- Hungary, Italy(1914), and Turkey) verse (Russia, France, Great Britain, and United states).

Imperalism

• A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
• Exploits one or more colonies.
• Before WWI Britain was the world’s dominant imperial power.

Isolationism

• Policy or doctrine of isolating one's country from the affairs of other nations by declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements
• The United States refused to join the League of Nations, thus isolating itself from other countries.

Militarism

• The belief that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.
• Austria-Hungary, who wanted to keep their reputation after realizing that if Slavs in the Balkans rebelled against the weakening Ottoman Empire for their freedom, they might do the same in Austro-Hungarian colonies.

Nationalism

• The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance
• Extreme form of patriotism and loyalty to one’s country.
• Nationalism gave citizens excessive confidence in their nation, their governments and their military strength.

Trench Warfare

• A type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches.
• Troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
• Most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front.

Command Economy

• An government has the power over the financial management of the country.
• Government is in control of the pricing of goods and services.
• People in power, such as politicians, give orders to buyers, sellers, and investors.

Total War

• A war in which every available weapon is used and the nation's full financial resources are devoted
• Moving females into production positions to help with the war effort.

Totalitarianism

• centralized control by an autocratic authority
• the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority
• Totalitarian regimes stay in political power through an all-encompassing propaganda campaign.

Propaganda

• Any type of material used in hopes of influencing a community’s thoughts and viewpoints towards one subject.
• There are many types of propaganda.
• Most where to get people to be for the war.

Mobilization

• The act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war.

Zimmerman Telegram

• Was an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January, 1917
• Proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany.

Woodrow Wilson

• The 28th President of the United States that led the country through WWI.
• Founded the League of Nations. Term. Treaty of Versailles.May 16, 2013.

Selective Service Act

• Gave the U.S. president the power to draft soldiers.
• Progressive Democrats, who usually sided with the president, asserted that a draft would destroy "democracy at home while fighting for it abroad."

Triple Alliance

• Secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically

Triple Entente

• Alliance of Britain, France, and Russia before World War I.

Unrestrictive Submarine Warfare

• Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy.
• A string of attacks on merchant ships followed, culminating in the sinking of the British ship Lusitania by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915.

Armistice

• the agreement that ended the fighting on the Western Front.
• was the end of WWI

Mandate

• An authorization granted by the League of Nations to a member nation to govern a former German or Turkish colony.
• Called a mandated territory, or mandate.

Central Powers

• Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph,and Mehmed V

Sussex Pledge

• A promise given by the German Government to the United States.
• Promised to alter their naval and submarine policy of unrestricted submarine warfare and stop the indiscriminate sinking of non-military ships.

Big Four

• leaders in Paris in 1919 for the World War I peace-treaty talks
• David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson.

14 Points

• Basis for peace negotiations at the end of the war.
• President Wilson set down 14 points as a blueprint for world peace that was to be used for peace negotiations after World War I.
• Stay peaceful

League of Nations

• An international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
• Created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.

"No Man's Land"

• Land that is unoccupied or is under dispute between parties who leave it unoccupied due to fear or uncertainty.
• The area of land between two enemy trench systems, which neither side wished to cross or seize due to fear of being attacked by the enemy in the process