World War I vocab
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36 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 great war | a war fought for an unexpected 4 years that included the tiple alliance against the triple entent |
| pan-salvism | a powerful form of nationalism. all slavic people shared a common nationality |
| miltitarism | the glorificaion of the military |
| triple alliance | austira-hungary, germany, italy (central powers) |
| riple entent | france, russia, great britain (the allies) |
| black hand | a serbian terrorist goup |
| ultimatum | a final set of demands |
| mobilize | to prepare military forces for war |
| neutrality | a policy of supporting neither side of the war |
| eastern front | the front line or the first people in battle in the east |
| western front | the front line or the first people in battle from the west |
| stalemate | a deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat another |
| u-boat | submarines |
| trench warfare | trenches were used to protect armies from fierce enemy fire |
| no man's land | a field that is not claimed by either side of the war and used for fighting |
| to go 'over the top' | in order to attack other trench lines, soldiers had to climb over the parapet of their trenches and cross no mans land |
| total war | the channeling of a nation's entire resources into the war effort |
| ration | when the government gives families only a certain amount of food and supplies depending on what they need so they can contribute as much as they need to the war |
| conscription | the draft which required all young men to be ready for the military or other service |
| propaganda | the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
| atrocity | horrible acts commmitted against innocent people |
| civilian | an individual from a nation |
| casualty | a death or injury that resulted from the war |
| treaty of brest-litovsk | a treaty that russia had with Germany that took them outof the war |
| lusitania | a British liner that was attacked and sunk |
| Zimmermann note | a telegram with Germany and Mexico that posed as a starting offer and was publicized |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the United States, establishted the Fourteen Points and had a large contribution to the war |
| Fourteen Points | a list of Wilson's terms for resolving this war and future wars |
| paris Peace Conference | the victorious allies met to discuss teh fate of europ, the former Ottoman empire, and various colonies around teh world. (Central Powers and Russia were not allowed to take part) |
| Treaty of Versailles | June 1919; a treaty that forced germany toa ssume full blame for causing the war |
| league of nations | more than 40 nations that joined a league and agreed to negotiate disputes rather than resort to war and to take common aciton against any aggressor state |
| reparations | payments for war damage |
| self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| madate | territories administered by western powers |
| pandemic | the spread of disease across a large area |
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