click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 14
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Total War | the channeling of all of a nation's resources into the war effort |
Neutrality | the policy of taking neither side in a conflict |
T.E. Lawrence | a British colonel who helped Arab nationalists, free their nations from the Ottoman empire |
militarism | glorification of the military |
zeppelins | large gas-filled balloons used by Germany to drop bombs. |
Dardanelles | a strait connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean |
propaganda | the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause |
reparations | payments for war damage |
prolatariat | a growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners |
Fourteen Points | a list of terms issued by President Wilson to end World War I and prevent future wars |
entente | nonbinding agreement to follow certain policies |
ultimatum | final set of demands |
mobilize | prepare military forces for war |
Alsace and Lorraine | provinces on the border of Germany and France, lost by France to Germany in 1871 |
stalemate | deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |
U-boat | German, Underwater Boat, submarine |
convoy | group of merchant ships protected by warships |
conscription | "the draft," which required all young men to be ready for military or other service |
contraband | during wartime, military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent |
Lusitania | British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915 |
atrocity | Horrible acts committed against innocent people |
self-determination | right of people to choose their own form of government |
armistice | agreement to end fighting in a war |
pandemic | spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world |
radicals | those who favor extreme changes |
collective security | system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |
mandate | after WWI, a territory administered by a Western power |
soviet | council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 |
Cheka | early Soviet secret police force |
commissar | Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty during the Russian Revolution |