- Consumer goods: goods that a person uses, such as electronics.
- armed forces: army
- conserve: save
- Produce: make something in a factory
- Troops: soldiers
- Draft: to force a person to join the army
- mine: a bomb that explodes when its touched
- fuel: things that make energy (food, gas, electricity)
- fleet: a group of ships
46. blockade: to stop something from passing into a country
47. doughboys: the first American soldiers who arrived to Europe
- armistice: agreement to stop fighting
- Standstill: Something that stays the same and is not changing
- Worn down: ruined, tired
- nearly: almost
- antiwar: against the war
- Fourteen Points: Wilson’s plan for permanent peace after the war
- conference: A meeting among a large group of people
- acceptable: right; correct
- Treaty of Versailles: changed the map of Europe and made new countries
- peace: friendship
- League of Nations: group of countries to settle problems peacefully
- treaty: a written agreement
- ratify: approve
