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SS test- 1/8/10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| diplomacy | negotiations between countries to reach an agreement and avoid confrontation |
| neutrality | not taking sides in a war and having the right to trade with countries that are fighting |
| isolationism | country stays out of disagreement between other countries and avoids joining any military alliances |
| interventionism | country takes an active or more hands on role in the world with diplomatic or military action |
| Spanish American War | April 23, 1898 |
| "yellow" journalism | exaggerated or untrue newspaper stories to get people's attention and increase circulation |
| humanitarianism | caring about the well being of other people and wanting to help those who are suffering or being mistreated |
| propaganda | words or pictures that bend the truth, misrepresent the facts, or lie to inlence the public opinion |
| National Security | Spain's army in cuba was a treat to America and other countries in the western hemispere |
| "Rememeber the Maine, to Hell with Spain" | US warship destroyed by an accidental explosion that is the immediate cause of the war with Spain in 1898 |
| 3 reason to go to war with Spain | -humanitarianism-help Cuba get independence-national security |
| N.A.T.O. | North American TreatyOrganization |
| imperialism | to acquire a colonial empire overseas or trying to influence the outcome elections in other countries to set up governments friendly to the U.S. |
| annex(ation) | to acquire an area of land and make it part of a country as a colony |
| protectorate | weak country protected by a world power in exchange for certain benefits |
| Sphere of Influence | parrt of the world "policed" by a world power that is off limits to other world powers (the Western Hemisphere) |
| "Big stick" Diplomacy | T. Roosevelt would use the military to carry out the country's foreign policy and respond to any situation that effects the US |
| Great War | World War 1 1914-1918 |
| nationalism | strong feelings of pride in a country who will support any descision made by the government + leaders |
| militarism | ideology that glorifies war, preparedness, and large armies and navies to fight in war |
| Alliance(s) | group between 2 or more countries that fight together to win a war |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary |
| Central Powers | germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey |
| Entente | countries are on friendly terms and agree to work to preserve peace in Europe |
| triple entente | France, Russia, Great Britain |
| Allie Powers | US, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, Romania, Serbia |
| June 28, 1914 | Franz (Francis) Ferdinand and Sophie were assasinated in Sarajevo, Serbia by Govrilo Princip ("Black Hand") |
| Emperor Francis Joseph | Austria-Hungary |
| Czar (Tsar) Nicholas II | Russia |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Germany |
| President W. Wilson | U.S. |
| mobilize | country calls up the army and sends soldiers to the fronts to fight |
| Western Front | France |
| Eastern Front | Russia |
| Battle of the Marne | 1914; French army stopped the Germans outside Paris to keep them from winning the war on the Western Front |
| Trench Warfare | type of fighting that will cause millions of casualties with little or no change in position on the Western Front (bloody stalemate) |
| War of Attrition | two armies try to wear each other down until one side gives up |
| defeatism | feeling that a war is unwinable, going on is useless, and the government should take the country out of the war |
| Battle of Galipoli | Turkey, 1915; allies failedvto reopen the Dardanelle's strait needed to send supplies to keep Russia in the war |
| Mustard gas | smells like lilacs but makes you suffocate |
| Chlorine gas | fills your lungs with water |
| fosfine gas | acid |
| Four Causes of World War I : | 1. nationalism, 2. militarism, 3. imperialism, 4. alliances |
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