VFL 5 the sequel: WW1 key terms

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Armistice

A truce or agreement to stop fighting (ended the war)

War Industries Board

An agency established in 1917 during WW1 that encouraged companies to use mass production techniques to increase efficiency and discouraged companies to eliminate waste.

Propaganda

A type of biased communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions.

George Creel

The head of the Committee on Public Information (CPI). Persuaded the nation’s artists & ad agencies to create posters, paintings, etc. to promote the war.

Espionage & Sedition Act

Two laws enacted in 1917 & 18 that imposed harsh penalties for interfering with the war effort or saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the government and the war effort.

Great Migration

The larger-scale movement of hundreds of thousands of Southern Blacks to cities in the North. Escaped to get away from the Jim Crow South.

14 Points

The principles making up President Wilson’s plan for world peace following WW1.

League of Nations

An association of nations established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.

George Clemenceau

French premier at Versailles peace conference who insisted on punishing Germany after the war; one of the “Big Four”.

David Lloyd George

The prime minister of Britain and one of the “Big Four” who contributed to creating the Treaty of Versailles.

Treaty of Versailles

A 1919 peace treaty at the end of WW1 which established new nations, borders, and war reparations.

Reparations

The compensation paid by a defeated nation for the damage or injury it inflicted during a war (war damages).

War-Guilt Clause

A provision to the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany acknowledged that it alone was responsible for WW1.

Henry Cabot Lodge

Conservative senator who wanted to keep the US out of the League of Nations.