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30 Cards in this Set
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Entente |
a nonbinding agreement to follow common policies |
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Militarism |
the glorification of the military |
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Alsace and Lorraine |
border province that France lost in the Franco-Prussian War |
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Ultimatum |
final set of demands |
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Mobilize |
prepare its military forces for war |
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Neutraility |
a policy of supporting neither side in a war |
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Stalemate |
a deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |
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Zeppelin |
large gas-filled balloons |
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U-boat |
nicknamed from the German word for submarine |
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Convoy |
groups of merchant ships protected by warships |
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Dardanelles |
a vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean |
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T.E. Lawrence |
Colonel, Lawrence of Arabia, from Britain, support the Arab revolt, led guerrilla raids against the Turks |
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Total War |
governments began to take a stronger role in directing the economic and cultural lives of their people |
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Conscription |
"the draft" which required all young men to be ready for military or other service |
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Contraband |
military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies |
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Lusitania |
British liner that was torpedoed by German submarine, 1,200 passengers were killed including 128 Americans |
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Propaganda |
the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
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Atrocity |
horrible acts of committed against innocent people |
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Fourteen Points |
Wilson issued this in January 1918, list of terms for resolving this and future wars |
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Self-determination |
the right of people to choose their own form of government |
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Armistice |
agreement to end fighting |
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Pandemic |
the spread of disease across a large area |
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Reparations |
payments for war damage |
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Radicals |
people who wanted to make extreme changes, dreamed of building a new social order from the chaos |
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Collective Security |
a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |
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Mandate |
territories administered by Western powers |
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Proletariat |
the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners |
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Soviet |
councils of workers and soldiers |
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Cheka |
a secret police force much like the tsar's |
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Commissar |
Communist part officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty |
