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| Alliance System | defense agreements among nations, intended to protect countries, but led to World War I. |
| Convoy | Destroyer ships that protected American soldiers bound for Europe from submarine attacks. |
| Entente | understanding between nations. |
| Initiative | process allowed citizens to place a measure or an issue on the ballot in a state election. |
| Isolationism | America’s foreign policy before and after WWI. It meant staying out of foreign affairs. |
| Militarism | atmosphere created in the early 1900s as European nations competed for colonies. |
| Nationalism | intense loyalty to country that caused much of the tension in Europe. |
| Philanthropist | is a wealthy person that donates large sums of money to charities. |
| Progressives | looked to the government to help solve (clean-up) societies problems. |
| Recall | allows voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from their jobs. |
| Referendum | process gave voters the opportunity to accept or reject measures that the state legislature enacted. |
| Settlement Houses | were supposed to provide humanitarian assistance to the poor. |
| Suffragists | were women and men who fought for women's right to vote. |
| Yellow Journalism | William Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer both owned newspapers that lead America into war by printing exaggerated stories. |
