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ryan history terms
Term | Definition |
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Total war | using all your resources-conscription, rationing, raising taxes, women working, factories |
propaganda | spreading ideas to cause damage |
conscription | the draft |
atrocity | horrible war crimes |
self deterination | the right of people to chose there own form of goverment |
u-boat | german subs |
armistice | an agreement to end fighting |
militarism | build up armies and navys for war |
mobilize | prepare your military for war |
entente | non binding agreement |
zeppelin | a very bad invention /large gas filled ballon |
convoys | a supply ship with goods and war ships surrounding it to protect them from U-boat attacks |
Dardanelles | vital strait connection the Black Sea and the Mediterranean sea |
contraband | weapons or other illegal goods |
fourteen points | list of terms that ended the war made by the President Wilson |
November 11 1918 | end of war |
pacifism | opposition to all wars |
pandemic | great loss of life |
reparations | payments for was damage |
radicals | dreamed of building a new order |
League of Nations | collective security although US did not support it. |
Treaty of Versailles | ended the war but Germany was unhappy with terms as was France for not being strict enough. |