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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
| Atrocities | Horrible acts committed against innocent people |
| Black Hand | the Serbian terrorist group that planned to assassinate Franz Ferdinand |
| collective security | a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |
| conscription | military draft |
| contraband | military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies |
| Convoys | Groups of merchant ships protected by warships |
| Dardanelles | A viral strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean |
| Entente | A friendly understanding between political powers |
| Fourteen Points | A series of proposals in which US president Woodrow Wilson outlines a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WW1 |
| Lusitania | A British passenger ship |
| Mandates | territories administered by western powers |
| Mobilize | to prepare for war |
| Neutrality | policy of supporting neither side in a war |
| Pandemic | Disease that occurs over a wide geographic are and affects a very high proportion of the population |
| propaganda | ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause |
| radicals | people who take extreme political positions |
| Reparations | payment for war damages |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's 2 front war |
| Self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| Stalemate | a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible |
| Total war | the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort |
| U-Boats | German submarines |
| ultimatum | final set of demands |
| zeppelins | large, gas filled balloons |