AP World History Unit 7 - Lesson 7.3

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Conscription

compulsory enlistment in the armed forces, often driven by patriotism

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Trench Warfare

Combatant nations dug hundreds of miles of trenches facing each other

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Poison Gas

Using chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas, soldiers experienced long lasting extreme pain that would have lung effects for survivors

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Machine Guns

Shooting over 500 round of ammunition per minute, warfare was made very deadly and hard to win any territory

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Submarines

Destroyed shipping lanes in the Atlantic Ocean

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Tanks

Landships developed by the royal navy that protected troops while traveling across battlefields, with the ability to fire powerfully at soldiers

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Airplanes

Fitted with machine guns for aerial combat, fighters engaged in dog fights

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Stalemate

battle condition in which neither side can progress position

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Zimmermann Telegram Interception

The United States intercepted a document from Germany that proposed help to Mexico for them to regain American territory

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Propaganda

information communicated in order to influence peoples opinions, in this case on the war

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ANZAC

Australian and New Zealand Corps

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Paris Peace Conference

Meeting between the victorious allies after WW1, to set peace terms with the defeated central powers

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Leaders at the Paris Peace Conference

Woodrow Wilson (U.S.), David Loyd George (Britain), Georges Clemenceau (France), and Vittorio Orlando (Italy)

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Wilsons peace proposal

no one country should be severely punished or rewarded

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Clemenceau peace proposal

Revenge should be seeked and France should have special protection against Germany as they suffered the most

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The Fourteen Points

Document stating President Wilsons peace principles including the creation of a League of Nations

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League of Nations

Organization in which all nations would discuss tensions openly to avoid war

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Treaty of Versallies

1919 peace treaty with Germany that was ratified by the U.S. Senate

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Weimar Republic

German republic after WW1 and before Nazi rule.

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Reparations

Payments as a form of compensation after a settled war.

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Why did Italy leave the Paris Peace Conference?

In rage, Vittorio Orland left the conference after Italy would not get promised territories.

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Why was Russia left out of the Paris Peace Conference

Concerns over Russia’s communist revolution.

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Why did Arabs living in the Ottoman Empire join the Allies?

Promised self-rule in exchange for fighting in the war.