world war i vocabulary 40 terms part 1 – packet terms 1 – 20 part 2 – packet terms 21 - 40
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World War I Vocabulary40 termsPart 1 – packet terms 1 – 20Part 2 – packet terms 21 - 40
Honors World History
Part I
World War I: Vocabulary
Glorification of the militaryOne of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of WW I.
Militarism
Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another’s defense
One of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of WW I
Alliances
Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
One of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of World War I
Imperialism
A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country
One of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of WW I
Can be healthy…
Can be
dangerous…
Nationalism
Goes hand-in-hand with imperialism
definitionAn alliance between
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s.
Triple Alliance
map
an alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s.
Triple Entente
To murder by sudden or secret attack usually for impersonal reasons
Assassination
archdukeA sovereign prince
A prince of the imperial family of Austria
A sovereign princeA prince of the imperial family of
Austria
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Final set of demands!
ultimatum
Provinces on the border of Germany and France
Lost by France to Germany in 1871Regained by France after WW I
Alsace and Lorraine
NeutralityPolicy of supporting neither side in a war
During WW I, the deadlocked region in northern France where German and Allied armies faced off.
Western Front
a form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions.
Trench Warfare
StalemateDeadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.
new weapon of war first used in 1915 by Germany followed by the Allies
blinded or choked its victims or caused agonizing burns and blisters
could be fatal was one of the most dreaded hazards of war.
Poison Gas
Weapon used during WW IA device that expels from a nozzle a burning
stream of liquid or semiliquid fuel under pressure
Flamethrower
German submarine Nicknamed from the German word for
submarine, Unterseeboot
U-boat
DefinitionLarge gas-filled
balloon; in 1915, Germans used these to bomb the English coast
zeppelin
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Total warChanneling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort
atrocityHorrible act committed against innocent people
contrabandDuring wartime, military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent.
British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915
Lusitania
A telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into World War I
Proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico
Zimmerman Note
“the draft” Required all young men to be ready for
military or other service
Conscription
Spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
Propaganda
Right of people to choose their own form of government
Self-determination
aka Russian RevolutionBrought the communists to power and
resulted in Russia’s withdrawal from WW ILed by Lenin who said, “We shall now occupy
ourselves in Russia in building up a proletarian socialist state.”
Bolshevik Revolution
Economic and political system in which government owns the means of production and controls economic planning.
Communism
Description1856 – 1924Former Governor of
New Jersey28th President of the
United StatesProposed the League
of Nations after WW I as part of his Fourteen Points
Woodrow Wilson
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Agreement to end fighting in a war
armistice
1919Treaty ending WW IRequired Germany to pay huge war
reparationsEstablished the League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
Ending The Great War AND changingthe face of Europe!
Payment for war damage, or damage caused by imprisonment
Reparation
An international body of nations formed after WW I to prevent future wars
League of Nations
System in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all
Collective Security
Spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world.
The human and material costs of “The Great War” were staggering. Millions of soldiers were dead, and even more wounded. The devastation was made even worse in 1918 by a deadly ______________ of influenza. In just a few months, the flu killed more than 20 million people worldwide!
Pandemic
Keep reviewing these key terms.There will be two matching vocab quizzes on these terms. The first will cover the first 20 terms with the second assessing those remaining.
Plus, these key terms will be featured on the WW I test as well!