| A | B |
|---|
| armistice | An end to fighting |
| John J Pershing | Commander of the American Expeditionary Force during WWI |
| Sedition Act | A 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the war; it set heavy fines and long prison terms for those who engaged in antiwar activities |
| League of Nations | An organization set up after World War I to settle international conflicts |
| Red Scare | In 1919-1920 a wave of panic from fear of a Communist revolution in the United States |
| Palmer raids | In 1920, federal agents and police raided the homes of suspected radicals |
| propaganda | An opinion expressed for the purpose of influencing the actions of others |
| Espionage Act | Passed in 1917, this law set heavy fines and long prison terms for antiwar activities and for encouraging draft resisters |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | Supreme Court Justice-argued that freedom of speech can be limited especially in war time |
| Great Migration | The movement of African Americans between 1910 and 1920 to northern cities from the South |
| Factors that helped cause the outbreak of WWI | *power struggles between nations *Growth of intense nationalism * The formation of alliances |
| Liberty and Victory Bonds | The chief method used by the United States to raise money during WWI |
| Central Powers | The group that Germany sided with in 1914 Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for lasting peace after WWI |
| Allied Powers | Russia, France and Great Britain |
| United States | The country that refused to sign the Versailles Treaty |
| reparations | What the Treaty of Versailles required Germany to pay |
| Western Europe | Where Americans did most of the fighting in WWI |
| trench warfare | The combat during WWI was mainly in _______ ________ |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | His assassination was the immediate cause of WWI |
| Germany | The nation that was required to accept responsibility for WWI and pay war reparations |
| Germany paying war reparations | The difference between the Treaty of Versailles and Fourteen Points |
| Remain neutral | Wilson Wanted Americans to do what the start of WWI |
| Disarmament | Decrease a nation's was weapons |
| women's contribution | They worked in factories |
| V.I. Marx | Brought the Bolsheviks to power in Runnis in 1917 |
| kaiser | German term for emperor |
| Bolsheviks | The political group that took over power in Russia in 1917 |
| militarism | The belief that a nation needs a large military force |
| Woodrow Wilson | The president of the United States during WWI |
| United States | What country did not join the League of Nations at the end of WWI |
| Germany and Russia | The countries that signed the Brest-Litovsk treaty |
| Zimmerman Note | The event that increased tension between the US and Germany after war broke out in Europe in 1914 |
| imperialism | The policy by which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker nations |
