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| militarism | the belief that a nation needs a large military force |
| Central Powers | an alliance of Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria during WW1 |
| Allies | an alliance of Serbia, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy aans 7 other countries during WW1 |
| trench warfare | a kind of warfare during WW1 in which tropps huddled at the bottom of trenches and fired artillery and machine guns at each other |
| U-boat | submarines that the Germans used to block trade during WW1 |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the US during WW1 who announced a policy of neutrality when the war started |
| neutrality | refusing to take sides in a war |
| Zimmerman telegram | a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the US entered WW1 |
| John J. Pershing | General in WW1 who led the American Expeditionary Force |
| American Expeditionary Force | During WW1, troops who were led by General John J. Pershing |
| convoy system | a heavy guard of dsestroyers that escorts merchant ships during wartime |
| Second Battle of the Marne | a 1918 battle during WW1 that marked the turning point in the war; allied troops along with Americans halted the German advance into France |
| Alvin York | American soldier who at first refused to bear arms and then went on to be a hero attacking German machine gunners in Oct. 1918 |
| armistice | an end to fighting |
| war bonds | a low-interest loan by civilians to the government, meant to be repaid in a number of years |
| propaganda | an opinion expressed for hte purpose of influencing the actions of others |
| Espionage Act | passed in 1917, this law set heavy fines and long prison terms for antiwar activities and for encouraging draft resisters |
| Sedition Act | an 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the war; it set heavy fines and long prison terms for those who engaged in anti-war activities |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Justice who argued that free speech, guaranteeed by the First Amendment, could be linited, especially in wartime |
| Great Migration | the movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1920 to northern cities from the south |
| League of Nations | an organization set up after WW1 to settle internations conflicts |
| Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's goals for peace after WW1 |
| Treaty of Versailles | the 1919 treaty that ended WW1 |
| reparations | money that a defeated nation pays for the destruction caused by a war |
| Red Scare | in 1919-1920, a wave of panic from fear of a Communist revolution |
| Palmer raids | in 1920, federal agents and police raided the homes of suspected radicals |
