5 th grade social studies world war 1 vocabulary mrs. thornburg’s version

5th Grade Social Studies World War 1 Vocabulary

Mrs. Thornburg’s version

Vocabulary Terms in 5th Grade Social Studies: World War 1

Alliance Nationalism

Militarism Trench Warfare

Rations Propaganda

Isolationism Armistice

Boom Assembly Line

Mass Production Stock

Division of Labor Stock Market

Prohibition

What do we call fast economic growth?

Boom

What do we call an arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being made passes from

worker to worker until completed?

Assembly Line

What do we call a place where people buy and sell stocks?

Stock Market

What do we call devotion to the culture and interests of a particular nation?

Nationalism

What do we call glorification of military spirit and ideas?

Militarism

What do we call a formal agreement or union between nations, organizations, or individuals?

Alliance

What do we call a war fought from ditches dug in the ground?

Trench warfare

What do we call limits on consumption of food and goods?

Rations

What do we call material distributed for the purposes of winning people over to a given doctrine, often without

regard to fairness or truth?

Propaganda

What do we call an agreement between two armies to stop fighting; a truce?

Armistice

What do we call the policy that a nation should avoid political and economic relationships with other countries?

Isolationism

What do we call a share of ownership in a company?

Stock

What do we call the act of forbidding something?

Prohibition

What do we call making many identical products at once?

Mass Production

What do we call the act of dividing a big project into smaller tasks and assigning each to a different

worker?

Division of Labor