World History Chapter 14 Flashcards
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| 10028357394 | entente | a nonbinding agreement to follow common policies |  | 0 |
| 10028357395 | militarism | glorification of the military |  | 1 |
| 10028357396 | Alsace and Lorraine | provinces on the border of Germany and France, lost by France to Germany in 1871; regained by France after WWI |  | 2 |
| 10028357397 | ultimatum | a final set of demands |  | 3 |
| 10028357398 | mobilize | to prepare military forces for war |  | 4 |
| 10028357399 | neutrality | supporting neither side in a war | 5 | |
| 10028357400 | stalemate | a deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |  | 6 |
| 10028357401 | zeppelin | a large, gas-filled balloon |  | 7 |
| 10028357402 | U-boat | a German submarine |  | 8 |
| 10028357403 | convoy | a group of merchant ships protected by warships |  | 9 |
| 10028357404 | Dardanelles | a vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea | 10 | |
| 10028357405 | T. E. Lawrence | British colonel sent to support the Arab revolt |  | 11 |
| 10028357406 | total war | channeling all of a nation's resources into a war effort | 12 | |
| 10028357407 | conscription | "the draft," which required all young men to be ready for military or other service |  | 13 |
| 10028357408 | contraband | during wartime, military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent |  | 14 |
| 10028357409 | Lusitania | a British liner torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in May 1915 |  | 15 |
| 10028357410 | propaganda | spreading ideas to promote or damage a cause |  | 16 |
| 10028357411 | atrocity | a horrible act committed against innocent people |  | 17 |
| 10028357412 | armistice | an agreement to end fighting |  | 18 |
| 10028357413 | Fourteen Points | U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's list of terms for resolving World War I and future wars | 19 | |
| 10028357414 | self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |  | 20 |
| 10028357415 | pandemic | a disease spread across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world |  | 21 |
| 10028357416 | reparations | payments for war damage |  | 22 |
| 10028357417 | radicals | people who want to make extreme changes | 23 | |
| 10028357418 | collective security | a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |  | 24 |
| 10028357419 | mandate | a territory administered by Western powers |  | 25 |