Ap Global WW1 terms Flashcards

132573459	Battle of the Marne	a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918	0
132573460	trench warfare	war from inside trenches enemies would try killing eachother with machine guns and tanks, and poison gas	1
132573461	western front	Complex system of trenches and earthworks that ran for 550 miles from the North sea to Switzerland that pitted Germany against Belgium,France,Britain and the U.S.	2
132573462	stalemate	a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible	3
132573463	no-man's land	Territory between rival Trenches, very dangerous	4
132573464	machine guns	The machine gun, which fires ammunition automatically, was much improved by the time of WWI. As a result, it saw wide use in combat. Because the gun could wipe out waves of attackers and made it difficult for forces to advance, it helped create a stalemate.	5
132573465	mustard gas	a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs	6
132573466	tanks	heavy armored vehicle which could travel over barbed wire and across enemy trenches	7
132573467	airplanes	used mainly for scouting enemy ground forces. Later used as fighters (attack other planes) or as bombers. Most planes of WWI were wooden biplanes (2 wings)	8
132573468	aerial reconnaissance	the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) from the air on airplanes	9
132573469	ace fighters	publicized and glamorized aerial combat of the Great War	10
132573470	dog fights	An aerial battle between two or more aircrafts.	11
132573471	submarine	vessel that can go under water, or situated under water	12
132573472	infantry	an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot	13
132573473	Eastern Front	In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.	14
132573474	Battle of Verdun	One of the most critical battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from 21 February to 18 December 1916 around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. Resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and at least a million wounded. It was the longest battle and one of the bloodiest in World War I and more generally in human history. In both France and Germany it has come to represent the horrors of war.	15
132573475	zeppelin	large gas-filled balloon (used by Germany to bomb England)	16
132573476	naval blockade	It was an attempt to keep everything from getting into a country through using the Navy. This was used by the british in order to force germany to surrender.	17
132573477	homefront	the places where civilians are active when their country is at war.	18
132573478	attrition	a wearing down to weaken or destroy	19
132573479	belligerents	nations at war	20
132573480	conscription	compulsory military service	21
132573481	shells	devices that exploded in the air or when they hit something	22
132573482	TNT	explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene	23
132573483	propaganda	information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause	24
132573484	Hun	offensive terms for a person of German descent	25
132573485	Twenty-One Demands	list of demands given to China by Japan in 1915 that, if agreed to, would have made China a protectorate of Japan	26
132573486	Battle of Gallipoli	Also known as the Gallipoli campaign, it took place at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey from April-January 1915-1916. It was a joint British and French operation meant to capture the capital city Constantinople and to secure a sea route to Russia. This failed, with nearly half a million casualties.	27
132573487	Dardanelles Strait	the water passage connecting the north aegean sea to sea of marmora and constantinople	28
132573488	Armenian Massacre	turkish troops killed tens of thousands of armenians (1890s), armenians supported enemies of the turks in WWI, 2 million armenians are deported, 600,000 are killed by turkish troops or starved to death.	29