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2023WH2 Unit 6 Vocab
World War 1 and Russian Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Diplomacy | managing international relations, usually as a treaty in order to maintain peace |
| Alliance | formal agreement between nations for mutual support in case of war |
| Trench Warfare | type of battle between opposing sides where they both attack each other from a network of ditches dug into the ground |
| League of Nations | a world organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson after WWI as a forum for nations to discuss international disputes |
| Mandate System | System created after WWI to administer and reorganize former German and Ottoman Territories |
| Reparations | a fee that defeated countries must pay to the victors of war |
| Tsarist | Being in support of the monarch of Russia and their system of government |
| Landless Peasantry | Russian practice where the extremely poor are forced to serve the landowning nobility |
| Lenin's New Economic Policy | A policy Lenin put in place. There was a free market and free trade however those freedoms were subject to state control and the government had control of the banks |
| Protective Tariffs | Tax on foreign imported goods to further support their own nations manufacturers |
| Totalitarianism | A government system that has a dictator and centralized power which requires complete control over the state |
| Entrenchment | A trench or system of trenches dug to provide soldiers shelter from artillery and a place to eat, sleep, and wait during the war |
| Inflation | Increase in prices when the value of money drops |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility or hatred of the Jewish people |
| Bolsheviks | A group of Russian revolutionary Marxists that took power after the Tsar (Czar) fell |