53065081 | pan-Slavism | a movement to promote the independence of the Slavic people | 0 | |
53065082 | Triple Alliance | a pre-WWI alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary | 1 | |
53065083 | Triple Entente | a pre-WWI alliance between Britain, France, and Russia | 2 | |
53065084 | War of Attrition | a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses | 3 | |
53065085 | stalemate | a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | 4 | |
53065086 | trench warfare | a type of warfare in which the armies fight from ditches protected by barbed wire | 5 | |
53065087 | jingoism | fanatical patriotism | 6 | |
53065088 | dreadnought | battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber | 7 | |
53065089 | propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause, brainwashing | 8 | |
53065090 | self-determination | the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will | 9 | |
53065091 | Dinshawai Incident | a clash between British soldiers and Egyptian villagers over hunting accident along the Nile | 10 | |
53065092 | Satryagraha | the strategy of non-violent protest by Gandhi | 11 | |
53065093 | mandates | territories placed under another countries control, mostly western powers enforcing imperialistic control | 12 | |
53065094 | pan-Africanism | the organization that brought together intellectuals and political leaders from areas of Africa and Africa diaspora before and after WWI | 13 | |
53065095 | negritude | an ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms, an affirmation of the African cultural heritage | 14 | |
53065096 | League of Nations | an 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 formed | 15 | |
53107269 | Matthew Perry | Commodore of the US Navy who opened up Japan for trade with the Treaty of Kanagawa | 16 | |
53107270 | Gavriel Princip | the Serbian nationalist who assassinated Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, his actions that were enforced by the Black Hand led directly to WWI | 17 | |
53107271 | Archduke Ferdinand | heir to the Austrian throne, assassinated in Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 | 18 | |
53107272 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th 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 | |
53107273 | Gandhi | political 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 persuasive | 20 | |
53107274 | BG Tilak | an Indian leader who helped to began in militant nationalism movement in India | 21 | |
53107275 | Sherif of Mecca | the local, hereditary rulers of Mecca from about 965 to 1916 | 22 | |
53107276 | Hussein | the sherif of Mecca who used promises to convince Arabs to support Britain's war against the Turks | 23 | |
53107277 | Theodore Herzl | an established Austrian journalist helped to form the World Zionist Organization | 24 | |
53107278 | Alfred Dreyfus | French 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 | |
53107279 | Kemal Ataturk | Turkish statesman who abolished the caliphate and founded Turkey as a modern secular state (1881-1938) | 26 | |
53107280 | Sa'd Zaghul | the leader of the Wafd Party in Egypt, led the revolt against Britain | 27 | |
53107281 | Leopold Sedar Senghor | Senegalese poet who led the Negritude Movement | 28 | |
53107282 | Nicholas II | the 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 maker | 29 |
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