| A | B |
|---|
| self determination | allowing ethnic groups in formered colonies and conquered territories to determine their own futures |
| reparations | payments made by defeated nations for war damages |
| collective security | a theory Wilson had about everyone working together in an international organization for world peace to prevent world war from happeneing again |
| solemn referendum | voting on a serious subject |
| propaganda | spreading materials deliberately designed to promote public support for the war |
| contraband | illegal or prohibited goods |
| belligerent | nation at war |
| Espionage Act | banned sending antigovernment and antiwar materials through the mail and aiding the enemy |
| Sedition Act | act which forbade anyone to "utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane or abusive language" |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| Allied Powers | Russia, Britain, France, etc. |
| Panama Canal | a faster and shorter route from the Pacific to Atlantic Ocean primarily used for navy |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's promise to a new world order that ended secret alliances and reliance of balence-of-power politics |
| the spark of WWI | the assassination of Franz Ferdinand started this |
| Pancho Villa | a Mexican general that murdered 18 US citizens in revenge of Wilson's intervention |
| Zimmerman Telegram | instructions to the German ambassador in Mexico to persuade Mexico to declare war on the US if the US entered the war against Germany |
| dollar diplomacy | little interest in foreign affairs, urged business investment overseas, involved US banks in economies of Latin America |
| missionary diplomacy | moralistic, idealistic ways and ideas |
| Roosevelt Corollary | stated that US alone had the right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin America neighbors if they proved to unable to maintain order and stability on their own. |
| Triple Alliance | Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy's partnership of government |
