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| German Submarine Warfare | U-Boats sank the Lusitania and other allied ships. |
| Selective Service Act | authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through conscription. |
| Sedition & Espionage Acts | Covers a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds. |
| Schenk v. United States | Concluded that a defendant did not have a First Amendment right to express freedom of speech against the draft during World War I. Ultimately, the case established the "clear and present danger" test, which lasted until 1969 when protection for speech was raised in Brandenburg v. Ohio to "Imminent lawless action". |
| Wilson's Fourteen Points | Speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. The address was intended to assure the country that the Great War was being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe. |
| Treaty of Versailles | One of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
| League of Nations | The first permanent international organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. |
| Washington Naval Conference | A military conference called by President Warren G. Harding and held in Washington from 12 November 1921 to 6 February 1922. Conducted outside the auspices of the League of Nations, it was attended by nine nations, the United States, Japan, China, France, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, and Portugal, having interests in the Pacific Ocean and East Asia. Soviet Russia was not invited to the conference. |
| Kellog- Briand Pact | (Also called the General Treaty for the Renunciation of War or the World Peace Act) was an agreement signed on August 27, 1928, by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy. |
