| A | B |
|---|
| Conscription | forced military service |
| War Industries board | a government agency created to coordinate the production of war materia |
| Bernard baruch | the head of the war industries board |
| Victory garden | garden planted by Americans to raise their own vegetable |
| Liberty bonds | bonds bought by Americans as a loan to the government to finance World War 1 |
| Victory bonds | bonds bought by Americans a a loan to the government to finance World War 1 |
| Committee on public information | a government agency created to sell the war to the American |
| Espionage | spying to acquire secret government information |
| Pancho Villa | leader of Mexican guerilla group |
| Guerrillas | an armed band that carries out surprise attacks and sabotage rather than open warfare |
| Nationalism - | an intense pride in one’s homeland |
| Self- determination | the idea that people who belong to a nation should have their own country and government |
| Franz Ferdinand | the heir o the Austro-Hungarian throne |
| Allies | the alliance for France, Russia, great Britain and Italy in world war 1 |
| Central powers | the alliance of Germany Austria Hungary the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria in world war 1 |
| Propaganda | information designed to influence opinion |
| Contraband | prohibited materials |
| U-boat | German submarines |
| Sussex pledge | German promise not to sink merchant ships without warning |
| Zimmermann telegram | sent by a German official to Mexico asking Mexico to ally itself with Germany against the united states in exchange for regaining its territories lost earlier to the U.S |
| No man’s land | the space between opposing trenches |
| Convoys | groups of merchant ships and troop transports |
| Vladimir Lenin | leader of the Bolshevik party |
| Treaty of Brest Litovsk | treaty between Germany and Russia that ended Russia’s involvement in world war 1 |
| Armistice | a cease- fire |
| Fourteen points | President Wilson’s plan for peace after world war 1 |
| League of Nations | as association of nations organized to help keep peace and prevent future wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty that ended World War 1 |
| Reparations | payments for war damage. |
| Cost of living | the cost of food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials that people need to survive |
| General strike | a strike that involves all workers in a certain location not just workers in a particular industry. |
| Red scare | panic in the United States caused by the fear that communists world seize power in the United States |
| Mitchell palmer | attorney general of the united states in 1919 |
| J. Edgar Hoover | head of the general intelligence division which became the FBI |
| Deported | to be expelled from a country |
