World War 1 Test Flashcards
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| 62034073 | militarism | a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests | 0 | |
| 62034074 | reparations | payment for damages after a war | 1 | |
| 62034075 | nationalism | the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | 2 | |
| 62034076 | ultimatum | final set of demands | 3 | |
| 62034077 | propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | 4 | |
| 62034078 | Georges Clemenceau | French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929) | 5 | |
| 62034079 | Western Front | In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. | 6 | |
| 62034080 | Eastern Front | area where other part of wars were fought. | 7 | |
| 62034081 | Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 8 | |
| 62034082 | Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry | 9 | |
| 62034083 | Gavrilo Princip | Assassinates Ferdinand on June 28th, 1914 | 10 | |
| 62034084 | Nicholas II | the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution | 11 | |
| 62034085 | Balkans | a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range | 12 | |
| 62034086 | Schlieffen Plan | Attack plan by Germans, proposed by Schliffen, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France, Belgium resisted, other countries took up their aid, long fight, used trench warfare. | 13 | |
| 62034087 | Triple Entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | 14 | |
| 62034088 | Francis Ferdinand | archduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I | 15 | |
| 62034089 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States | 16 | |
| 62034090 | Versailles Treaty | The compromise after WW1, settled land and freedom disputes. Germany had to take full blame for the war in order for the treaty to pass, among other things. The US Senate rejected it. | 17 | |
| 62034091 | Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies | 18 | |
| 62034092 | Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later the US | 19 | |
| 62034093 | Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 20 |