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vocab words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| entente | nonbinding agreement to follow common policies |
| militarism | glorification of the military |
| mobilize | prepare military forces for war |
| neutrality | policy of supporting neither side in a war |
| stalemate | deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |
| zeppelin | large gas-filled balloon |
| u-boat | German submarine |
| convoy | group of merchant ships protected by warships |
| Dardanelles | vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea in present-day Turkey |
| T.E. Lawrence | also known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British archaeologist who helped lead an Arab rebellion and guerilla war against the Ottoman Turks during World War I |
| total war | channeling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort |
| lusitania | British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915 |
| propaganda | spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
| atrocity | horrible act committed against innocent people |
| fourteen points | list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918 |
| self-determination | right of people to choose their own form of government |
| armistice | agreement to end fighting in a war |
| pandemic | spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world |
| reparations | payment for war damage or damage caused by imprisonment |
| radical | one who favors extreme changes |
| collective security | system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |
| mandates | after World War I, a territory administered by a Western power |
| proletariat | working class |
| soviet | council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 |
| V.I Lenin | was a Russian communist revolutionary who led the Bolsheviks to victory in the Russian October Revolution. He served as the premier of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924. He adapted the idea of Karl Marx to create Marxism-Leninism |