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AP World History
Valhalla High School Bentley AP World Ch. 34
Term | Definition | Significance | Time Period | Chapter | Region |
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February Revolution | Russian uprising in 1917 against shortages and the mounting toll of World War I. Nicholas II abdicated the thrown, and a provisional government was established. | Abolished the Tsar system in Russia. | 1917 | 34 | Russia |
Gallipoli | World War I battle in which the British lead a disastrous attack on the Ottomans; the number of Allied casualties weakens loyalty between Britain and Canada, Australia, and New Zealand | Weakened Allied ties, caused heavey damages to Ottomans | World War I | 34 | Ottoman Turkey |
Home Front | Term made popular in World War I and World War II for the civilian "front" that was symbolic of the greater demands of total war. | Encouraged civilians to participate, unified people, encouraged total war. | World Wars I and II | 34 | All sides |
Imperialism | Term associated with the expansion of European powers and their conquest and colonization of African and Asian societies, mainly from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. | Ended after World War I | 16th - 19th centuries | 34 | Western Powers controlling Africa and South America |
Luisitania | British passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war. | Led to the American involvement in World War I | 1914 | 34 | Britain and America |
The Black Hand | Pre-World War I secret Serbian society; one of its members, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and provided the spark for the outbreak of the Great War. | This provided the begining of the Great War. | 1918 | 34 | Sarajevo |
Bolshevik | Russian communist party headed by Lenin. | This was the party that overthrew the tsar of Russia | 1917 | 34 | Russia |
Central Powers | World War I term for the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire. | These alliances were significant because they gave the power to choose between nations. | 1914 | 34 | Europe |
Communism | Philosophy and movement that began in middle of the nineteenth century with the work of Karl Marx; it has the same general goals as socialism, but it includes the belief that violent revolution is necessary to destroy the bourgeois world | This was a philosphy that was important because all people couuld have an equal say in what they did for a living and proceeds of labor woud be shared, the poor and rich would be equal | Middle of 19th century | 34 | Russia |
Dreadnoughts | A class of British battleships whose heavy armaments made all other battleships obsolete overnight. | This was significant because they overpowered all battleships. | 1917 | 34 | Made in Britain |
Propaganda | The editing and falsification of any media, but especially news, by an entity to serve a certain purpose. | The belligerent nations of WWI extensively used propaganda to dehumanize enemies and promote nationalism | 1914-1918 | 34 | all nations participating in WWI |
Lenin | Russian leader of the Bolshevik Party and promoter of Marxism. | Fought to promote communism in Russia, participated in both the February and October Revolutions | 1870-1924 | 34 | Russia |
Submarine Warfare | The use of subaquatic ships in marine warfare | A style of combat that was paticularly effective against Allied merchant ships, used primarly by the Germans. | 1914-1918 | 34 | Atlantic Ocean |
Lusitania | The British passenger liner carrying amunition that was sunk by a German passenger liner | Although considered a legitimate target by international law, because it carried American citizens, began a series of events that entered America into WWI. | 1915 | 34 | Irish Coast |
The Paris Settlement | The post-war meeting of WWI belligerents excluding the central powers. | Largely innefective and was dominated by the U.S, France and England. It was during this meeting that the infamous Treaty of Verailles was formulated. | 1919 | 34 | Paris, France |
Self-determinism | Belief popular in World War I and after that every person should have the right to determine their own political destiny. | Often cited but ignored by the Great Powers | World War I | 34 | Europe |
Soviets | Russian elected councils that originated as strike committees during the 1905 St. Petersburg disorders; they represented a form of local self-government that went on to become the primary unit of government in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. | The term was also used during the cold war to designate the Soviet Union. | 1905 | 34 | Russia |
St. Petersburg | New capital built by Peter the Great in 1703. Known as the "window on the west," the city served as headquarters for the navy and government. | St. Petersburg is often argued to have the image of being the most Western European styled city of Russia. | 1703 | 34 | Russia |
Treaty of Versailles | Denied Germans a navy and air force and limited the size of the German army to 100,000 troops. | Ended World War I. | 1919 | 34 | France |
League of Nations | First permanent international security organization whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. | The onset of the Second World War suggested that the League had failed in its primary purpose. | 1919–1920 | 34 | Paris |