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militarism
the glorification of the military
propaganda
the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
reparations
payments for war damage
Gavrilo Princip
a conspirator that killed the archduke and his wife
Woodrow Wilson
-symbol of hope
-one of the tree strong personalities who dominated the Paris Peace Conference
-urged "peace without victory"
-wanted Fourteen Points to be the basis of peace
neutrality
policy of supporting neither side in a war
total war
channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
Francis Ferdinand
-archduke of Austria-Hungary
-when he was on a visit to Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, he was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip
ultimatum
final set of demands
mandates
territories administered by western powers
Treaty of Versailles
(negatives)
-forced Germany to assume full blame for causing the war
-imposed huge reparations
-limited the size of German military
-returned Alsace and Larraine to France
Trench Warfare
on the western front, the warring armies burrowed into a vast system of trenches stretching from the Swiss frontier to the English Channel.
-linked bunkers, communications trenches, gun emplacements
-broiling hot in the summer, freezing in the winter
-there were rats and lice
Nicholas II
-weak and ineffectual man
-czar of Russia
-relied on his secret police and other enforcers to impose his will
collectivism
large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group
Leon Trotsky
-assisted Lenin when he returned from exile
-turned the Red Army into an effective fighting force
-he had passionate speeches that roused soldiers to fight
-brilliant Marxist thinker, a skillful speaker, architect of the Bulshevik Revolution
-at Lenin's death, he was up against Stalin of position
-urged support for a worldwide revolution against capitalism
-fled the country in 1929
-in 1940, he was murdered in Mexico by a Stalinist agent because even though he was in exile he continued to speak out against Stalin
Karl Marx
"The Communist Manifesto"
-believed that economics was the driving force in history
-condemned the ideas of the Utopians as unrealistic idealism
-put forward a new theory "scientific socialism" which he claimed was based on a scientific study of history
Nikita Khrushchev
-in 1953, he emerged as the new soviet leader
-in 1956, he denounced Stalin's abuse of power
-he then pursued the policy of de-stalinization