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World War I Vocabulary40 termsPart 1 – packet terms 1 – 20Part 2 – packet terms 21 - 40

Honors World History

Part I

World War I: Vocabulary

Glorification of the militaryOne of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of WW I.

Militarism

Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another’s defense

One of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of WW I

Alliances

Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region

One of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of World War I

Imperialism

A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country

One of the “M.A.I.N.” causes of WW I

Can be healthy…

Can be dangerous…

Nationalism

Goes hand-in-hand with imperialism

definitionAn alliance between

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s.

Triple Alliancemap

an alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s.

Triple Entente

Pacifism

Opposition to all war

To murder by sudden or secret attack usually for impersonal reasons

Assassination

archdukeA sovereign princeA prince of the imperial family of Austria

A sovereign princeA prince of the imperial family of

Austria

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Final set of demands!

ultimatum

Prepare military forces for war

mobilize

Provinces on the border of Germany and France

Lost by France to Germany in 1871Regained by France after WW I

Alsace and Lorraine

NeutralityPolicy of supporting neither side in a war

During WW I, the deadlocked region in northern France where German and Allied armies faced off.

Western Front

a form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions.

Trench Warfare

StalemateDeadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.

new weapon of war first used in 1915 by Germany followed by the Allies

blinded or choked its victims or caused agonizing burns and blisters

could be fatal was one of the most dreaded hazards of war.

Poison Gas

Weapon used during WW IA device that expels from a nozzle a burning

stream of liquid or semiliquid fuel under pressure

Flamethrower

German submarine Nicknamed from the German word for

submarine, Unterseeboot

U-boat

WW I VocabularyPart II – terms 21 - 40

DefinitionLarge gas-filled

balloon; in 1915, Germans used these to bomb the English coast

zeppelinImage

Total warChanneling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort

atrocityHorrible act committed against innocent people

contrabandDuring wartime, military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent.

British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915

Lusitania

A telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into World War I

Proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico

Zimmerman Note

“the draft” Required all young men to be ready for

military or other service

Conscription

Spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

Propaganda

Right of people to choose their own form of government

Self-determination

aka Russian RevolutionBrought the communists to power and

resulted in Russia’s withdrawal from WW ILed by Lenin who said, “We shall now occupy

ourselves in Russia in building up a proletarian socialist state.”

Bolshevik Revolution

Economic and political system in which government owns the means of production and controls economic planning.

Communism

Description1856 – 1924Former Governor of

New Jersey28th President of the

United StatesProposed the League

of Nations after WW I as part of his Fourteen Points

Woodrow WilsonPicture

Agreement to end fighting in a war

armistice

1919Treaty ending WW IRequired Germany to pay huge war

reparationsEstablished the League of Nations

Treaty of Versailles

Ending The Great War AND changingthe face of Europe!

Payment for war damage, or damage caused by imprisonment

Reparation

An international body of nations formed after WW I to prevent future wars

League of Nations

System in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all

Collective Security

Spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world.

The human and material costs of “The Great War” were staggering. Millions of soldiers were dead, and even more wounded. The devastation was made even worse in 1918 by a deadly ______________ of influenza. In just a few months, the flu killed more than 20 million people worldwide!

Pandemic

Keep reviewing these key terms.There will be two matching vocab quizzes on these terms. The first will cover the first 20 terms with the second assessing those remaining.Plus, these key terms will be featured on the WW I test as well!