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SS- Chapter 27
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| militarism | glorification of the military |
| ultimatum | a final set of demands |
| mobilize | to prepare military forces for war |
| propaganda | ideas that are spread to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
| reparations | payments for war damages |
| neutrality | taking neither side in disputes |
| total war | channeling all of a country's resources into a war effort |
| mandates | territories administered by another nation(s) |
| armistice | agreement to end fighting |
| Germany | __ joined the Triple Alliance to protect itself against France. |
| Bosnia | On the eve of WWI, ___ was ruled by Austria-Hungary. |
| automatic machine gun | The __ was the weapon that contributed most to the stalemate on the western front during WWI because trench warfare made it possible for troops to advance. |
| modern weapons | WWI was more destructive because __ were more deadly. |
| Ottoman empire | The __ joined the Central Powers in WWI. |
| United States | The involvement of the __ had the greatest impact on the outcome of WWI. |
| submarine | The __ helped turn WWI into a global war. |
| women | __ kept their nations going during WWI. |
| Treat of Best-Litovsk | The __ had the greatest immediate effect on WWI because it took Russia out of the war and allowed Germany to move its troops to the western front. |
| Europe | In 1918, __ was in ruins. |
| Francis Ferdinand | __ was the heir to the Austrian throne. |
| Woodrow Wilson | __ was the author of Fourteen Points. |
| George Clemenceau | __ was the french representative to the Paris Peace Conference who demanded that Germany be punished. |
| Kaiser William II | __ was the German leader who supported Austria's war with Serbia. |
| Gavrilo Princip | __ was the Serbian revolutionary who assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne. |
| Black Hand | __ was the terrorist organization that planned the assassination of Francis Ferdinand. |
| League of Nations | The __ is a group of 4o nations whose goal is to keep peace by using diplomacy to avoid war. |
| Major causes of WWI: | aggressive nationalism, economic and imperial rivalries, militarism and arms races, formation of alliances, assassination of Austrian heir, Germany telling Austria not to back down from its ulimatum to Serbia. |
| Examples of aggressive nationalism during WWI | Alsace-Lorraine, Pan-Slavism, Crisisin Balkans |
| Examples of economic and imperial rivalries during WWI | Germany/Britain-industries, competition for colonies between Germany and France |
| Triple Alliance | Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany (with exception of Italy becomes Central Powers |
| Triple Entente | France, Russia, Britain (Becomes Allied Powers) |
| Technology of WWI (first mechanized war) | automatic machine gun, tank, submarine (U boat), airplane, poison gas and gas masks |
| Front | area where fighting is going on |
| colonies | __ provided troops, laborers, and supplies during WWI. |
| Women | took men's place in the factories, etc. (kept the nation going); served as nurses, ambulance drivers, clerks, telegraph operators in the war effort; had to give up their jobs after the war |
| Three reasons the US entered the war: | unrestricted submarine warfare, cultural ties, Zimmerman note |