Chapter 27 History Vocab

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 Militarism

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glorification of the military

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 Nationalism

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a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country

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 Anarchy

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an abolishment of all government; a state of society without government or law

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 Imperialism

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domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.

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 Propaganda

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spreading of ideas to promote a certain cause or to damage an opposing cause

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 Ultimatum

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final set of demands

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 Reparation

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payment for war damages or damages caused by imprisonment

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 War Bonds

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a form of savings during wartime helping to support the war

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 Armistice

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agreement to end fighting in a war

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 Edith Cavell

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English nurse. When World War I broke out, she was head of the nursing staff of the Berkendael Medical Institute

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 Schlieffin Plan

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was the German General Staff's overall strategic plan for victory on the Western Front against France, and was executed to near victory in the first month of World War I

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 David Lloyd George

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the British Prime minister

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 George Clemenceau

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the French leader who made a anti-German war policy

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 Woodrow Wilson

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President of the United States who insisted that Americans had the right to safe travel on the seas.

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 Alfred Nobel

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a Swedish inventor who invented dynamite and regretted the military uses of his invention.

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 Gavrilo Princip

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Serbian political agitator

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 Black Hand

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It was the name adopted by a secret organization formed in Serbia in 1911, led by army officers, whose objective was the achievement of Serbian independence from Austria and Ottoman Turkey

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 Triple Alliance

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An alliance between Germany, Austria- Hungary and Italy

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 Triple Entente

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It aligned Britain to France and Russia, who had concluded a military alliance