AP World History WWI Flashcards

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