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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| James Watt | Invented the steam engine |
| Bourgeoisie | the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people |
| Proletariat | Marx's term for the exploited class, the mass of workers who do not own the means of production |
| Socialist | person who supports community ownership of property and the sharing of all profits |
| Karl Marx | Philosopher, father of communism. believed that communism would replace capitalism as it replaced feudalism & in a classless society. |
| Otto von Bismarck | Chancellor of Prussia led Prussia to victory against Austria & France, "Blood & Iron" strategy, created German Empire |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I. |
| Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. |
| Triple Alliance | An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI. |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States , Paris Peace Conference, proposed League of Nations. & 14 points |
| Bolseviks | a revolutionary group to seize control of Russia during WWI, communists, pull Russia out of WWI. |
| Industrial Revolution | Began in Britain, making cloth moved from homes to large factories. because Britain coal and iron, lasted for over 100 years started in 1700. |
| Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war |
| Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. |
| Alliance System (WWI) | An agreement to work together for common defense |
| Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality above an individual |
| Berlin Conference | A meeting at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules for colonization of Africa |
| Boxer Rebellion | A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country. |
| Western Front | A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break in Northern France where Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany. |
| Fourteen Points | A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. |
| Russian Revolutions | Prompted by labor unrest, food shortages, WWI costs, 2 revolutions, and a civil war occurred Czar Nicholas II was murdered and Vladimir Lenin sought control to implement his ideas of socialism eventually taking control of the country. |
| League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations after WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty particularly known for its harsh reparations towards the Germans after World War I. |
| Lusitania | British boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI |
| Zimmerman Telegram | A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S. |
| Central Powers | In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies. |
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