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APWHM Unit 7 Review

Terms in this set (38)

Western Front
A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.
WWI
A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies, notably Britain, France, Russia, and Italy (which entered in 1915), and the Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
Balfour Declaration
British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI
Theodore Herzi
tried to convince the Jews to go back to Israel, leader of Zionist movement
Armenian Genocide
The massacre of Armenians conducted by Turkey during WWI
Russian Revolution
The revolution against the Tsarist government which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the creation of a provisional government in March 1917.
Bolsheviks
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists lead by Lenin who took control of Russia's government in November 1917
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification)
14 points
President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars.
League of Nations
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace. It was first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson, although the United States never joined the League. Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.
Treaty of Versailles
the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
New Economic Policy
Lenin's economy reform that re-established economic freedom in an attempt to build agriculture and industry
Chinese Revolution of 1911
The collapse of China's imperial Manchu order, officially at the hands of organized revolutionaries but for the most part under the weight of the troubles that had overwhelmed the government for the previous half-century.
Sun Yatsen
head of the Revolutionary Alliance that led the 1911 revolt against the Qing; created the Guomindang in 1919;
Guomindang
Nationalist political party founded on democratic principles by Sun Yat-sen in 1912. After 1925, the party was headed by Chiang Kai-shek, who turned it into an increasingly authoritarian movement.
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