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WS WW1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Militarism | the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values. |
| Triple Alliance | A secret alliance between Germany, Austria, and Italy signed in May 1882 at the instigation of Bismarck. |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia from 1888 to the end of World War I in 1918 |
| Triple Entente | a diplomatic alignment of Great Britain, France, and Russia in the decade leading up to World War I. |
| Nationalism | an ideology that emphasizes loyalty, devotion, or allegiance to a nation or nation-state and holds that such obligations outweigh other individual or group interests |
| Franco Prussian War 1870 | a coalition of German states led by Prussia defeated France, ending French hegemony in continental Europe and creating a unified Germany. |
| Imperialism | State policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining political and economic control of other areas |
| Balkans | retreating Serbian troops fled to Albania, prompting the Central Powers to invade Albania. |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. His assassination in Sarajevo was the most immediate cause of World War I. |
| Serbia | On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War. |
| Bosnia | a Young Bosnia revolutionary named Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo |
| Central Powers | alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire as the 'Central Powers' |
| Allies | The major Allied powers in World War I were Great Britain (and the British Empire), France, and the Russian Empire, formally linked by the Treaty of London of September 5, 1914 |
| western front | the western side of territory under the control of Germany, which was also fighting on its eastern flank for most of the conflict |
| Schlieffen plan | designed to avoid Germany having to fight a two-front war against France and Russia. The plan was to invade France and capture Paris before the Russians could mobilize. |
| trench warfare | opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground. |
| eastern front | major theatre of combat during World War I that included operations on the main Russian front as well as campaigns in Romania. |
| rationing | limiting the amount of scarce goods people can buy, like sugar for example |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink merchant ships such as freighters and tankers without warning |
| total war | Mobilization, refusal to compromise, the blurring of roles between soldier and civilians, and total control of society. |
| propaganda | information designed to get people's thinking aligned with government interests concerning the war |
| armistice | ceasefire that ended hostilities between the Allies and Germany on 11 November 1918. |
| Lusitania | May 7, 1915, the German submarine (U-boat) U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift-moving British cruise liner traveling from New York to Liverpool, England. Of the 1,959 men, women, and children on board, 1,195 perished, including 123 Americans. |
| Czar Nicolas 2 Russia | supported Serbia and approved the mobilization of the Russian Army on 30 July 1914. In response, Germany declared war on Russia on 1 August and its ally France on 3 August, starting World War I. |
| Woodrow Wilson | changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism. |
| Georges Clemenceau | French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau, controlled his delegation. His chief goal was to weaken Germany militarily, strategically, and economically |
| Fourteen points | guidelines for the rebuilding of the postwar world, the points included Wilson's ideas regarding nations' conduct of foreign policy, including freedom of the seas and free trade and the concept of national self-determination |
| Self determination | a nation—a group of people with similar political ambitions—can seek to create its own independent government or state |
| treaty of Versailles | required the new German Government to surrender approximately 10 percent of its prewar territory in Europe and all of its overseas possessions |
| League of Nations | an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes |
| Communist party | Communists came to power through a military coup, starting a revolutionary transformation of the Russian society and economy |
| Soviet Union | The Soviet Union was the first totalitarian state to establish itself after World War One. In 1917, Vladimir Lenin seized power in the Russian Revolution, establishing a single-party dictatorship under the Bolsheviks |
| proletariat | a class of people who earn their living through labor. Proletariat is also a word that generally means the 'working-class. |
| Bolsheviks | a member of the communist party that seized power in Russia by the Revolution of November 1917 |
| Lenin | a Russian communist revolutionary and head of the Bolshevik Party who rose to prominence during the Russian Revolution of 1917 |
| Rasputin | Siberian peasant monk who was religious advisor in the court of Nicholas II; was assassinated by Russian noblemen who feared that his debauchery would weaken the monarchy |
| Provisional government | a temporary government formed to manage a period of transition, often following state collapse |
| Soviet | a workers' council in the late Russian Empire, primarily associated with the Russian Revolution, which gave the name to the latter state of the Soviet Union |
| Communist party | political party that seeks to realize the socio-economic goals of communism. The term "communist party" was popularized by the title of The Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. |
| joseph Stalin | Soviet revolutionary and politician who was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. |
| totalitarianism | one-party dictatorships that regulate every aspect of citizens' lives; everything is subordinated totally to the state |
| great purge | Stalin used his secret police to spy on the people who disagreed with him. Then the police would arrest them and sent them to labor camps in Siberia or kill them. Around 8 million people died. |
| command economy | requires that a nation's central government own and control the means of production. Private ownership of land and capital is nonexistent or severely limited. |
| 5 year plan | method of planning economic growth over limited periods, through the use of quotas, used first in the Soviet Union and later in other socialist states. |
| collective Farm | A large government owned farm that produces for the state. |
| Kuomintang | Nationalist Party in China led by Jiang Jieshi, which began a war against the Communist Party led by Mao Zedong. Both fought for control of China, with Mao and the Communists ultimately winning in 1949 |
| Sun Yixian | leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party or Kuomintang, and the short-lived de facto president and ruler of the Republic of China after the rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. |
| May fourth movement | a cultural and political movement that grew out of student protests in Beijing. The Movement was often referred to as the Chinese Renaissance because there was an intense focus on science and expirementaion |
| Mao Zedong | Mao Zedong is the head of Chinese communist parties that led the Long March. transformed China to a more modern country |
| Jian Jieshi | was the head of the Chinese nationalists that attacked their communists comrades |
| Long March | the 6,000-mile (10,000-km) historic trek of the Chinese communists, which resulted in the relocation of the communist revolutionary base from southeastern to northwestern China and in the emergence of Mao Zedong as the undisputed party leader |
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