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WWI Vocabulary List (Alliances (-agreement in which countries promise to…
WWI Vocabulary List
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Imperialism
-the actions used by one country to exercise political,economic, or military control over smaller or weaker countries
U-boats
-nickname for submarines, from the German word unterseeboot
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Allied Powers
Great Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Belgium, and the U.S in 1917
Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman empire, and Bulgaria
Zimmerman Telegraph
-a secret, encoded message sent by Germany to Mexico, promising an alliance if the U.S. entered WWI
League of Nations
-an association of nations to preserve peace and resolve international disputes proposed in Wilson's fourteen points
Fourteen Points
-the peace plan to end WWi and restructure the countries of Europe, proposed by President Wilson
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Woodrow WIlson
-president during WWI, proposed the Fourteen Points peace plan
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Lusitania-A British passenger liner that was torpedoed by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915; 1,198 died including 128 Americans