World War I Vocabulary

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Militarism

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The belief that a country should maintain a strong military and to use it aggressively to expand its interests or values

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Nationalism

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A belief based on the idea that the individual's loyalty and devotion to their country surpass other individual or group interests.

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Allied Powers

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Countries such as Great Britain, France, and the United States that fought together during World War I

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Central Powers: Countries such as Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire that fought together during World War I

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Countries such as Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire that fought together during World War I

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Trench Warfare

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Combat in which armies attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground.

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What was the Lusitania Incident?

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The torpedoing and sinking of a British passenger liner by a German submarine.

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Selective Service Act

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Law giving the U.S. president the power to draft soldiers

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Zimmerman Note

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Secret communication that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the US entered World War I against Germany

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Great Migration

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The movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern US to the cities in the north

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Espionage & Sedition Acts

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Laws which prohibited many forms of speech, including "any disloyal...or abusive language about the...government of the US"