| A | B |
| nationalism | A devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation. |
| militarism | The development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy. |
| Allies | The Triple Entente of Britian, France and Russia. |
| Central Powers | The triple alliance of Germany, Austia-Hungry, and the Ottoman Empire |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | His death was the direct cause of World War I. |
| no man's land | The land between the trenches consisting of mud pockmarked with shell craters and barbed wire. |
| trench warfare | Armies fought for mere yards of ground. |
| Lusitania | A British ship sunk by a German U-boat. |
| Zimmermann Note | An intercepted telegram that proposed an alliance between Mexico and Germany. |