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Chapter 27
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pacifism | opposition to all war |
| Alfred Nobel | Nobel peace prize |
| 1899 | First Universal Peace Conference: Hague Tribunal, Netherlands |
| Pan-Slavism | all Slavic people held a common nationality |
| militarism | the glorification of the military |
| entente | nonbinding agreement to follow comon policies |
| Allies | France, Britain, Russia |
| Triple Alliance, 1882 | Germany, Itlay, Austra-Hungary |
| Central Powers, 1914 | Germany, Austra-Hungary |
| Kaiser William II | head of Germany |
| June 28, 1914 | Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary shot in Sarajevo |
| ultimatum | final set of demands |
| July 28, 1914 | Austria declares war on Serbia |
| mobilize | prepare its military forces for war |
| Germany, Austra, versus | Serbia,Russia, Germany |
| neutrality | policy of supporting neither side in a war |
| Schlieffen Plan | avoid 2 front war: |
| Germany invades first | Belgium, who is neutral |
| The Guns of August | Barbara Tuchman |
| The Great War | WWI |
| Battle of the Marne | Brits and French pushed back German offensive |
| stalemate | deadlock in which neither side is able to win |
| no man's land | between opposing trenches |
| over the top | charge across no man's land to attack enemy |
| Battle of Verdun | 1916, Germany vs France |
| zeppelins | large gas filled baloons to bomb |
| u-boats | german submarines |
| convoys | groups of merchant ships protected by warships |
| new weapons: | poison gas, armored tank, airplanes |
| Battle of Tannenburg | 1914, Russia defeat by Germany |
| Caporetto | Italian defeat by Austrians/Germans |
| Japan allied with Britain | took German outposts in China and Pacific |
| Battle of Gallipoli | Allies defeated by Turks |
| Lawrence of Arabia | Brit Col. defeated Ottoman empire in Middle East |
| total war | channeling of a nation's entire resources into war effort |
| conscription | draft of young men to serve in army |
| propaganda | spreading of ideas to promote cause or to damage opposing cause |
| atrocities | horrible acts against innocent people |
| impact of war on women | war industries, armed forces, nurses |
| March 1917 | bread riots in Petersberg, Russia |
| V.I. Lenin | revolutionary who brought down Russian monarchy |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovak | 1918, ends Russia's participation in war |
| Edith Clavell | Brit nurse executed for spying by Germans |
| Self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| Armistice | agreement to end fighting |
| Pandemic | the spread of a disease across an entire country, continent, or the whole world. |
| Reparations | payments for war damage. |
| Collective security | A system in whihc a group of nations act as one to preserve the peace of all. |
| Mandates | territories administered by western powers |
| Lusitania | Brit liner that German uboats sunk in 1915 |
| US declares war on Germany | 1917 |
| Woodrow Wlson | Pres during WWI |
| Zimmerman note | German foreign minister note to Mexico |
| Nov 11, 1918 | Armistice Day, WWI ends |
| The Big Three | US, Britian, France |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's demands for peace |
| Treaty of Versailles | 1919 |
| goal of Treaty of Vers | weaken Germany |
| Paris Peace Conference | 1919 |
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