World War I Terms

3. was a secret message issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico IF the United States entered World War I against Germany.
5. the president of the U.S. who at first opposed American involvement in WWI, but later led the country into the war on the side of the Allies.
6. an intense feeling in a group of people that they should have their own land and identity as a nation. A feeling that goes beyond patriotism, a sense that one’s own nation is so special that it deserves greater honor and glory.
9. Independent women called_____________began to wear shorter skirts and sleeveless dresses.
11. was a Great Britain-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by a German Navy U-boat during the First World War in 1915.
13. the belief or policy that the US should avoid getting involved in troubles in Europe or other parts of the world.
14. ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers in WWI.

1. the use of submarines to attack and sink enemy ships.
2. the movement of some six million African Americans from rural areas of the Southern states of the United States to urban areas in the Northern states between 1916 and 1970.
4. was an American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of the Blues", she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s.
7. a belief in building up the nation’s military forces as a way to increase the nation’s power and prestige in the world.
8. was the first worldwide intergovernmental organization whose main mission was to maintain world peace.
10. if they could not afford to pay for something all at once, they could use _______________ __________. This allowed people to pay for a product a little bit at a time.
12. the type of fighting, in which the armies of each side dug large networks of trenches in the ground. This made it very difficult for either to attack and defeat the other.