| A | B |
|---|
| nationalism | devotion to a national or ethnic identity |
| militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and military ideas and values |
| alliances | creating ties that will provide mutual support |
| imperalism | the policy of extending a nation's power by gaining political and economic control over other countires |
| 4 causes of WWI | militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism |
| spark that started WWI | assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| reparations | money that a defeated nation pays for the harm done during a war |
| trench warfare | fighting from inside long, narrow dit ches |
| new weapons | machine guns, poison gas, tanks |
| 2 events that pushed the US into the war | sinking of Lusitania and the Zimmerman telegram |
| Allied Powers | England, France, Italy, USA, Russia |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Empire |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the United States |
| Fourteen Points | 14-point proposal for a postwar agreement |
| Treaty of Versailles | one of the treaties that ended WWI |
| Selective Service Act | law that issued the draft |
| League of Nations | group of nations that join an association to protect each other's independence |
| 1914-1918 | years of WWI |
| General Pershing | US General who realized that trench warfare wasn't working |
| U-boat | submarine |
