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Selective Service

Law passed by Congress in 1917 that required all men from ages 21 to 30 to register for the military draft

Alliance

An alliance is between multiple countries where they a trust where when one country goes to war the other countries in the alliance go to war with them

Propaganda

Misleading information

Wilson's Fourteen Points

Instructions for the rebuild after WW1

Woodrow Wilson

28th president who was the commander of the U.S. Army in WW1

Imperialism

Expanding a territory by taking over another country

Annexation

possession taken of a piece of land or a country

Treaty of Versailles

formally ending World War One

Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning

Lusitania

caused international outrage and helped turn public opinion against Germany

Zimmermann Telegram

a coded message sent to Mexico

Isolationism

Noninvolvement in world affairs

Neutrality

the state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict

Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917-1918)

The Act made it a crime to convey information intended to interfere with the war effort

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I.

What was that immediate cause (spark) that ignited World War I?

A young Serbian patriot shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand