Promise by Germans to stop sinking passenger vessels after sinking this vessel during WWI
Sussex Pledge
Agreements between countries for mutual defense; felt that this would ensure postwar world order
Collective security
Alliance between Britain, France, and Russia before WWI
Triple Entente
List of Wilson's goals for a post-war world such as open treaties, freedom of the seas, arms reduction, free trade, self determination and a new international organization to maintain the peace
Fourteen Points
The principle that every nationality would get their own country; after WWI led to the creation of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland
Self Determination
Propaganda effort established to build support for the Allies among Americans and to demonize the Germans
Creel Committee
Wilson's justification for the war showing his belief that, after the war, a new international peace would arise with liberty for new nations
Make the world safe for democracy
Those in Congress who felt that the US should not join the League of Nations under any circumstances
Irreconcileables
Call by Woodrow Wilson to stop the conflict based on a balance of power and to form a a peace in which nation would work together to keep the peace
Peace without victory
Alliance of Germany, Austria, and Hungary before WWI