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53065081pan-Slavisma movement to promote the independence of the Slavic people0
53065082Triple Alliancea pre-WWI alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary1
53065083Triple Ententea pre-WWI alliance between Britain, France, and Russia2
53065084War of Attritiona war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses3
53065085stalematea situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible4
53065086trench warfarea type of warfare in which the armies fight from ditches protected by barbed wire5
53065087jingoismfanatical patriotism6
53065088dreadnoughtbattleship that has big guns all of the same caliber7
53065089propagandainformation that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause, brainwashing8
53065090self-determinationthe ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will9
53065091Dinshawai Incidenta clash between British soldiers and Egyptian villagers over hunting accident along the Nile10
53065092Satryagrahathe strategy of non-violent protest by Gandhi11
53065093mandatesterritories placed under another countries control, mostly western powers enforcing imperialistic control12
53065094pan-Africanismthe organization that brought together intellectuals and political leaders from areas of Africa and Africa diaspora before and after WWI13
53065095negritudean ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms, an affirmation of the African cultural heritage14
53065096League of Nationsan international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations, although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed15
53107269Matthew PerryCommodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan for trade with the Treaty of Kanagawa16
53107270Gavriel Principthe Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, his actions that were enforced by the Black Hand led directly to WWI17
53107271Archduke Ferdinandheir to the Austrian throne, assassinated in Sarajevo in the summer of 191418
53107272Woodrow Wilson28th President of the United States, led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (1856-1924)19
53107273Gandhipolitical and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule, an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948), educated in the West, very persuasive20
53107274BG Tilakan Indian leader who helped to began in militant nationalism movement in India21
53107275Sherif of Meccathe local, hereditary rulers of Mecca from about 965 to 191622
53107276Husseinthe sherif of Mecca who used promises to convince Arabs to support Britain's war against the Turks23
53107277Theodore Herzlan established Austrian journalist helped to form the World Zionist Organization24
53107278Alfred DreyfusFrench army officer of Jewish descent whose false imprisonment for treason in 1894 raised issues of anti-semitism that dominated French politics until his release in 1906 (1859-1935)25
53107279Kemal AtaturkTurkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938)26
53107280Sa'd Zaghulthe leader of the Wafd Party in Egypt, led the revolt against Britain27
53107281Leopold Sedar SenghorSenegalese poet who led the Negritude Movement28
53107282Nicholas IIthe last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution, he and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks (1868-1918), he was an inept ruler and poor decision maker29

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