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| 61333903 | Western Front | In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. | 0 | |
| 61333904 | Faisal | Arab prince, leader of the Arab Revolt in World War I. The British made him king of Iraq in 1921, and he reigned under British protection until 1933. (p. 760) | 1 | |
| 61333905 | Theodore Herzl | Austrian journalist and founder of the Zionist movement urging the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. (p. 760) | 2 | |
| 61333906 | Balfour Declaration | British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI | 3 | |
| 61333907 | Bolsheviks | The "majority" - Communist party led by Lenin. Although they were not the majority and actually received a terrible percentage of the Russian Congress's vote, Lenin kept the name to create attraction and support. After the Russian Congress received the low voting, the Bolsheviks and Lenin took over and simply disregarded the Russian Congress from there on out. | 4 | |
| 61333908 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 5 | |
| 61333909 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States, President of the United States (1913-1921) and the leading figure at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. He was unable to persuade the U.S. Congress to ratify the Treaty of Versailles or join the League of Nations. (p. 762) | 6 | |
| 61333910 | League of Nations | An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace. | 7 | |
| 61333911 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 8 | |
| 61333912 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private enterprises. Joseph Stalin ended the N.E.P. in 1928 and replaced it with a series of Five-Year Plans. (See also Lenin, Vladimir.) (p. 766) | 9 | |
| 61333913 | Mandate system | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision. (p. 770) | 10 | |
| 61333914 | Max Planck | German physicist who developed quantum theory and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1918. (p. 774) | 11 | |
| 61333915 | dreadnoughts | enormous battleships that helped fuel the Anglo-German rivalry. Stayed in port. | 12 | |
| 61333916 | entente | Understanding; in 1907 britain and Russia buried their differences and formed an entente. Europe was thus divided into two blocs of roughly equal power | 13 | |
| 61333917 | Great War | a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918 | 14 | |
| 61333918 | Eastern front | Germany and Austria-Hungary vs. Russia | 15 | |
| 61333919 | Turnip winter | When german people had to survive on 1,000 calories per day, half of the normal amount that an active adult needed ; came after the failure of the potato crop | 16 | |
| 61333920 | mensheviks | The party which opposed to the Bolsheviks. Started in 1903 by Martov, after dispute with Lenin. THE Mensheviks wanted a democratic party with mass membership. | 17 | |
| 61333921 | Leon Trotsky | assisted Lenin, committed Marxist revolutionary | 18 | |
| 61333922 | October revolution | Bolsheviks rose up and took over petrograd | 19 | |
| 61333923 | Otto von bismark | Prussian leader of German unification/nationalism movement | 20 | |
| 61333924 | Submarine telegraph cables | Insulated copper cables laid along the bottom of a sea or ocean for telegraphic communication. The first short cable was laid across the English Channel in 1851; the first successful transatlantic cable was laid in 1866. | 21 | |
| 61333925 | Victorian Age | Reign of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (1837-1901). The term is also used to describe late-nineteenth-century society, with its rigid moral standards and sharply differentiated roles for men and women and for middle-class and working-class people | 22 | |
| 61333926 | separate spheres | 19th century idea in Western societies that men and women, especially of the middle class , should have clearly differentiated roles in society | 23 | |
| 61333927 | nationalism | Political ideology that stressed people's membership in a nation ; community defined by a common culture and history as well as by territory | 24 | |
| 61333928 | liberalism | Political ideology that emphasizes the unruliness of a human nature and justified state coercion and control | 25 | |
| 61333929 | Suez canal | Ship canal dug across the isthmus of suez in Egypt, designed by ferdinand de lesseps. It opened to shipping in 1869 and shortened the sea voyage between Europe and Asia. Its strategic importance led to the british conquest of Egypt in 1882 | 26 | |
| 61333930 | New imperialism | Historians term for the late 19th and early 20th century wave of conquests by European powers, the united states , and japan, which were followed by the development and exploitation of the newly conquered territories for the benefit of the colonial powers | 27 | |
| 61333931 | King Leopold 2 | King of Belgium; active in encouraging the exploration of central Africa and became the ruler of the congo free state | 28 | |
| 61333932 | Berlin Conference | Conference that german chancellor otto von Bismarck called to set rules for the partition of Africa. It led to the creation of the congo free state under king Leopold 2 | 29 | |
| 61333933 | Free-trade imperialism | Economic dominance of a weaker country by a more powerful one, while maintaining the legal independence of the weaker state. In the late 19th century, free-trade imperialism characterized the relations between the latin American republics , on the one hand, and great Britain and the united states , on the other | 30 | |
| 61333934 | triple alliance | germany, italy, & austria-hungary ( & ottomans ) | 31 | |
| 61333935 | triple entente | france , britain, & russia ; ( + U.S. & serbia ) | 32 |
