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Unit 14 - 10th
Unit 14: World War I (required)
Term | Definition |
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Austrian-Hungary official that was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist beginning a chain reaction that would cause World War One |
Armenian Massacre | Genocide of Christians by the Muslim Ottoman Empire |
League of Nations | Organization created after World War One to prevent another war, but had no power to enforce its policies |
minority | small group of a larger group, ex: Jews in Nazi Germany |
Powder Keg of Europe | Nickname for the Balkans that saw nationalistic rivalries and is where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated started World War One |
propaganda | using media (newspapers, radio, posters) to influence how people think and act |
radicals | people who want extreme change, ex: Hitler, Stalin |
trench warfare | warfare used during World War One where both sides dug ditches to protect their armies from gunfire |
Treaty of Versailles | document that ended World War One and forced Germany to take blame for starting the war and pay reparations |
M.A.N.I.A. | ways to remember the causes of World War One, M: militarism, A: alliances, N: nationalism, I: imperialism, A: assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
World War One (cause, events, result) | conflict that began after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that used trench warfare, and ended when Germany accepted the Treaty of Versailles |