ch.22 ib history (period 7) vocab

Central Powers

a political alliance consisting of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire

Allies

a political alliance including Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and, MUCH LATER, the United States

Lusitania

a British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar

Zimmerman Note

an internal diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States' entering World War I against Germany

Fourteen Points

a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I

League of Nations

an intergovernmental organization founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War

Francisco "Pancho" Villa

a Mexican Revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution

Eugene V. Debs

an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States

Herbert C. Hoover

Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s who introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade

Dollar Diplomacy

a form of American foreign policy to further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through use of its economic power by establishing businesses and guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries

Big Stick Diplomacy

the policy of carefully mediated negotiation supported by the unspoken threat of a powerful military

Roosevelt Corollary

policy asserting US authority to intervene in the affairs of Latin American nations; an expansion of the Monroe Doctrine

Red Scare

the post-WWI hysteria over Bolshevik influence in the US

Open Door

the American policy of seeking equal trade and investment opportunities in foreign nations or regions

self-determination

the right of a people or a nation to decide on its own political allegiance or form of government without external influence

Committee on Public Information

a government agency created during WWI that sought to shape public opinion of the war

Sedition Act

a law restricting criticism of America's involvement in WWI or its government, flag, military, taxes or officials

liberty bonds

interest-bearing certificate sold by the US government to finance the American WWI effort

Bolsheviks

members of the Communist movement in Russian that established the Soviet government

Espionage Act

a law whose vague prohibition against obstruction of the nation's war effort was used to crush dissent and criticism during WWI