WWI Vocabulary

an increase in the importance of the military of a country

• u-boats

• militarism

• trench warfare

• stalemate

to prepare for war

• Mobilze

• Liberty Bonds

• Communists

• Central Powers

: a group of nations in WWI that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

• Allied Powers

• Stalemate

• Central Powers

• Communists

a group of nations that fought the Central Powers during WWI

• Allied Powers

• Central Powers

• Treaty of Versailles

• Lusitania

a new kind of warfare in WWI that involved troops digging and fighting from deep trenches

• Mobilize

• Militarism

• Stalemate

• Trench Warfare

a situation in which neither side can win a victory

• Selective Service Act

• Militarism

• Mobilze

• Stalemate

German submarines

• Lusitania

• U-Boats

• Mobilize

• Armistice

a passenger ship sunk by Germany

• Treaty of Versailles

• Allied Powers

• Lusitania

• Treaty of Versailles

a telegram from Germany to Mexico offering Mexico a return of territory in exchange for declaring war on the United States

• Liberty Bonds

• Selective Service Act

• Treaty of Versailles

• Zimmerman Note

a law that allowed the president to draft soldiers in times of war

• Central Powers

• Selective Service Act

• Liberty Bonds

• Treaty of Versailles