Modern World History Chapter 9

Lusitania

British passenger liner sunk by German U-boat; 128 Americans died

Imperialism

Powerful nation dominates affairs of others; Competition for colonial holdings

The First Red Scare

Time of anti-communist hysteria in US 1919-20

Committee on Public Information

Gov’t agency; Purpose was to ‘sell’ the war to American public

Zimmermann Note

Germany promised Mexico land if it drew US into war; Brits passed info on to US

Nationalism

National pride and war-like attitudes

Food Administration

Gov’t agency; Urged Victory Gardens, Meatless, and Eat-less days

Central Powers

WW1 Alliance: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans, Bulgaria

The Versailles Treaty

War guilt clause pinned fault of war on Germany; set reparations at $38 billion

Allied Powers

WW1 Alliance: Great Britain, France, Russia, US

League of Nations

Designed to act as “world court”; lacked power because it had no military

War Labor Board

Gov’t agency; Said striking laborers would be denied employment and forced into military

Rationing

Limiting amount of goods people may buy; often imposed by gov’t

the ‘Powder Keg of Europe’

Balkan region

Schlieffen Plan

Germany’s WW1 plan for two-front attack against Russia and France

Mobilization

Organization of resources (troop/supplies/etc) for movement or combat

Reparations

Payment by defeated nation for damages caused during war

War Industries Board

Gov’t agency; Operated Us economy as a single industry

Isolationism

Said US should focus on US, not Europe’s problems

Demobilization

Transition from wartime production to peacetime production

Propaganda

Ideas/facts/rumors to further one’s cause or damage opponent; posters

Selective Service Act

Authorized a military draft of men in the US

Militarism

Glorification of armed strength

Trench Warfare

Miles of ditches dug to protect from machine-gun fire

Wilson

US President who came up with 14 Point plan for direction of Europe after WW1 was over

Red Baron

Manfred von Richthofen; shot down 80 plans; leader of Germany’s Flying Circus squad

Rival Alliances

Association to further common interest of member nations

No Man’s Land

Area between trenches; in ruins due to constant shelling/gas

Armistice

Agreement to stop fighting until treaty can be drawn up ; ________ Day : Nov 11, 1918