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Jude 8th- Chapter 21
Chapter 21: World War I
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| militarism (cause) | general cause of WWI - new technologies, arms race between countries, and glorification of war |
| militarism | a policy of glorifying military power |
| alliances (cause) | general cause of WWI - agreements by countries to aid each other if attacked; most nationed signed secret alliances |
| imperialism (cause) | general cause of WWI - competition between different countries for colonies |
| imperialism | the policy of extending a nation's power by gaining political and economic control over other countries |
| nationalism (cause) | general cause of WWI - conflicts at the French/German border; ethnic nationalism in the Balkans region |
| nationalism | devotion to a national/ethnic identity, including a desire for independence from rule by foreign countries |
| assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | singular event that sparked the chain of events that led to World War I starting with Austria declaring war on Serbia |
| Allied Forces | France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, and eventually the United States |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire |
| trench warfare | warfare in which opposing armed forces attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground |
| living conditions of the trenches | disease-ridden, dirty, muddy, unsanitary, etc. |
| chemical warfare | the modern use of chemical weapons began with World War I, when both sides to the conflict used poisonous gas to inflict agonizing suffering and to cause significant battlefield casualties |
| Sinking of the Lusitania | Germans sunk a British luxury ship with Americans on board; this was a surprise attack in non-war waters and as America was trying to stay out of the European conflict |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States of America during WWI |
| Georges Clemenceau | Prime Minister of France during WWI |
| David Lloyd George | Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI |
| Victorio Orlando | Prime Minister of Italy during WWI |
| "He Kept Us Out of the War" | Wilson's presidential campaign slogan that won him re-election |
| Zimmerman Telegram | a secret diplomatic communication issued from Germany that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered WWI against Germany, resulting in Mexico getting back land it once occupied |
| national draft | the mandatory enrollment of individuals into the armed forces |
| pacificts | a person who believes that war and violence are unjustifiable |
| isolationists | a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries |
| propaganda | information or ideas spread by a group or government to promote its cause/ideas; in this case the United States government used propaganda to help the public support the war effort |
| Wilson's 14 Points | a proposal made by Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress outlining his vision for ending WWI in a way that would prevent such a horrible event from occurring again |
| Points 1-5 | aimed to prevent conflict and asked nations to avoid secret treaties, practice free trade, and reduce their weapons supplies |
| Points 6-13 | described new boundaries for many European countries |
| Point 14 | called for the creation of a League of Nations |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty that ended the war between Germany and the Allied Powers |
| Russia | country that was not present at the peace talks at the end of the war due to it having to leave the war because of its own revolution at home |
| Major Points of the Treaty of Versailles | 10 new countries created, land returned to France, Germany forced to pay reparations, Germany assumed war guilt, German military not to exceed 100,000 troops, and a League of Nations was created |
| reparations | the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged |
| Major Weaknesses of the Treaty of Versailles | Germany is internationally humiliated, Russia was left out of the peace talks and lost more land than anyone else, Italy's requests were ignored, and European colonies were upset over their mistreatment |
| isolationism | a policy of avoiding political or military agreements with other countries |
| major battles on the Western front | Marne, Verdum, and the Somme |
| Christmas Truce of 1914 | Over Christmas 1914, singing and soccer broke out between British and German forces. |
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