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| 351536207 | Militarism | The belief that a nation needs a large military force | 0 | |
| 351536208 | Alliances | a tangled network of competing friends and foes binding European nations together | 1 | |
| 351536209 | Imperialism | The policy by which stronger nations extend their economic, political, or military control over weaker nations or territories | 2 | |
| 351536210 | Nationalism | a feeling of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness towards one's country | 3 | |
| 351536211 | Socialism | an economic system in which all members of a society are equal owners of all businesses; members share the work and the profits. | 4 | |
| 351536212 | Totalitarianism | A form of government in which one person or party exercises absolute control over all aspects of life and in which no opposition is allowed | 5 | |
| 351536215 | Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilson's goals for peace after World War I. | 6 | |
| 351536216 | Trench Warfare | a kind of warfare during World War I in which troops huddled at the bottom of trenches and fired artillery and machine guns at each other | 7 | |
| 351536217 | Central or Allied Powers | One of two groups of European nations of opposing alliances | 8 | |
| 351536218 | reparations | money that a defeated nation pays for the destruction caused by a war | 9 | |
| 351536219 | armistice | an end to fighting | 10 | |
| 351562548 | Three Emperors league | created in 1873 by Bismarck- linked the monarchs of Austria-Hungary and Russia in an alliance against radical movements | 11 | |
| 351562549 | Treaty of San Stefano | Brought an end to the Russ-Turkish War and gave Russia influence in the Balkans | 12 | |
| 351562550 | Congress of Berlin | (1878) Assembly of representatives from Germany, Russia, Hungary, Britain, France, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. Meeting was to reorganize the countries of the Balkans - led to greater nationalism. | 13 | |
| 351562551 | Triple Alliance | An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI. | 14 | |
| 351562552 | Dual Alliance | Bismarck's secret treaty with Austria which provided for support if attacked by Russia | 15 | |
| 351562553 | Triple Entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | 16 | |
| 351562554 | Entente Cordiale | The series of understandings, or agreements, between France and Britian that led to their alliance in World War 1 | 17 | |
| 351562555 | Russo-Japanese War | A 1904-1905 conflict between Russia and Japan, sparked by the two countries' efforts to dominate Manchuria and Korea | 18 | |
| 351562556 | First Moroccan Crisis | German attempt to break up Franco-English alliance by taking Morocco but caused the Russian, French, and English alliance | 19 | |
| 351562557 | Bosnian Crisis | Austria annexed bosnia and herzegovina angering the serbs and russians; William II forced Russia to accept annexes or face war with germany | 20 | |
| 351562558 | serbs | Russia's "little brothers" | 21 | |
| 351562559 | Second Moroccan Crisis | France puts down a rebellion in Morocco (1911) giving Germany an excuse to extort colonial territory to "protect German citizens"; ends with Germany getting small colony in Congo and France getting full colonial control of Morocco. | 22 | |
| 351562560 | Panther | gunboat sent by Germans to the Moroccan port of Agadir to protect German citizens there during the second Moroccan crisis | 23 | |
| 351562561 | Archduke Francis Ferdinand | heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary killed by a terrorist from Bosnia who wanted Bosnia to break away from Austria-Hungary to join Serbia. | 24 | |
| 351562562 | Black Hand | a political terrorist society, from which a member assasinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 | 25 | |
| 351562563 | blank check | Germany gave Austria a _________ about there support for Austria to attack Serbia. | 26 | |
| 351562564 | Schlieffen plan | germany's plan to march though Belgium and conquer France in order to avoid fighting on two fronts | 27 | |
| 351562565 | tank | answer to machine gun | 28 | |
| 351562566 | Lusitania | Sunk in 1915 by a German submarine. 139 American killed. Forced Germany to stop submarine warfare. | 29 | |
| 351562567 | to make the world safe for democracy | a reason President Wilson entered the war | 30 | |
| 351562568 | Russian Revolution 1917 | overthrow of Czar Nicholas II by Bolsheviks; | 31 | |
| 351562569 | Nicholas II | tsar during russian revoultion | 32 | |
| 351562570 | Provisional Government | The government established in 1917 which replaced Nicholas II when he abdicated. The only mistake of this government was not getting Russia out of the brutal World War I. | 33 | |
| 351562571 | Lenin | leader of the Bolshevik Party, overthrew the Russian government and established a Communist government | 34 | |
| 351562573 | Bolsheviks | a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917. | 35 | |
| 351562575 | Petrograd | new name of St. Petersburg, since it was more "Russian" | 36 | |
| 351562577 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | ended Russia's participation in the war, required to give up large amounts of land to Germany, it gave Germany coal mines and other valuable resources in Russia. | 37 | |
| 351562579 | White Russians | those who opposed revolution in Russia and supported the tsarist regime | 38 | |
| 351562581 | Red Russians | Russians who supported Bolshevik Revolution | 39 | |
| 351562583 | Ludendorff | Junior German officer who, under command of Hindenburg, captured or destroyed 2 Russian armies, real leader of German army, persuaded Germans to gamble it all in one last offensive, determined that Germany should make peace BEFORE they were completely defeated | 40 | |
| 351562585 | 14 Points | the war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations | 41 | |
| 351562587 | Austria- Hungary, Russia, Turkey, German, Ottoman | empires destroyed or heavily damaged in the war | 42 | |
| 351562589 | Young Turks | group of revolutionary and nationalistic military officers who revolted against Ottoman empire in 1908 attempting to make reforms and then sided with the central powers in WWI; entered war with Germany in Nov. 1914 -> end of Ottoman Empire | 43 | |
| 351562591 | sherif | ruler or emir; ex: Hussein of Mecca | 44 | |
| 351562593 | Treaty of Versailles | Created by the leaders victorious allies Nations: France, Britain, US, and signed by Germany to help stop WWI. The treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to rapair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manefacture any weapons. | 45 | |
| 351562595 | mandates | a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations; replaced "colonies" | 46 | |
| 351562597 | David George | British rep. at Versailles | 47 | |
| 351562599 | Georges Clemenceau | French rep. at Versailles | 48 | |
| 351562601 | Vittorio Orlando | Italian Rep. at versailles | 49 | |
| 351562603 | Big Four | U.S., Brit., France, Italy @ Versailles | 50 | |
| 351562605 | Balfour Declaration | Statement issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary in 1917 favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine. (p. 761) | 51 | |
| 351562607 | Spartacus Group | A communist uprising in Berlin. | 52 | |
| 351562609 | 5 | Treaty of Versailles had how many separate treaties? | 53 | |
| 351562611 | Soviet Union and Germany | Who was excluded from Versailles? | 54 | |
| 351562613 | League of Nations | International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation. It proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s. | 55 | |
| 351562615 | war guilt clause | a provision in the Treaty of Versailles by which Germany acknowledged that it alone was responsible for WWI; had to pay huge reparations | 56 | |
| 351562617 | John Keynes | wrote "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (1920); an attack on reparations and other economical aspects of the peace. | 57 | |
| 351562619 | John Keynes | Young English economist who denounced Treaty of Versailles and said that people needed to revise treaty and help German econ. Said Britain needed Germany, and if the German market went under, Britain econ would go under. His book was one of the major reasons that the British were sympathetic towards Germany. | 58 |
