| A | B |
| Pancho Villa | Mexican Guerilla leader who atacked Americans in Mexico |
| Nationalism | feelings of intense pride for one's homeland |
| self determination | the idea that people who from a nation should have their own country and government |
| Franz Ferdinand | this man's assassination sparked the beginning of WWI |
| The Allies | France, Britain, and Russia |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austira, Hungary |
| propaganda | information put out by the government to influence public opinion |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | This is when German ships would sink ships without warning |
| Sussex Pledge | promise that Germany would not sink any more ships without warning |
| Lusitania | ship sunk by German U-Boats, 128 American deaths put the US closer to war |
| Zimmerman Telegram | message sent from Germany to Mexico promising territory if they would join the fight against the US |
| conscription | forced military service |
| War Industries Board | Designed to coordinate the production of war materials |
| Hoover and the Food Administration | designed to preserve food and encourage patriotism on the home front |
| Alien and Sedition Act | Passed to limit free speech and prevent opposition to the war |
| "no man's land" | area between the trenches |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | agreement between Russia and Germany which put Russia out of the war |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty that ended Word War I, punished the Germans tremendously |
| Wilson's Fourteen Points | Idealistic attempt to end WWI, stressed self determination and no punishments |
| League of Nations | General Association of coutnires designed to preserve peace and internation unity |