History Unit Test Vocab

Alsace and Lorriance

Alsace and Lorriance

German empire that had been "taken during the war

Dardanelles

A vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean

armistice

agreement to end fighting with the Allies

Proletariat

the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners

Commissar

Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty during the Russian Revolution

comintern

the communist international

entente

nonbinding agreement to follow common policies

militarism

the glorification of the military

ultimatum

final set of demands

mobilize

Prepare military forces for war

neutrality

policy of supporting neither side in a war

stalemate

A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

zeppelin

large gas-filled balloon

U-boat

German submarine

convoy

group of merchant ships protected by warships

total war

mechanized war required the channeling of a nation's entire resources into the war effort

Conscription

A military draft

contraband

military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies

Lusitana

British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat during World War I

propaganda

The spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

atrocity

horrible act committed against innocent people

Fourteen Points

A list of terms developed by Woodrow Wilson that was designed to resolve WWI and prevent future wars.

Self-determination

the right of people to choose their own form of government

pandemic

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

reparation

payments for war damage

radical

people who wanted to make extreme change

collective security

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

mandate

territories administered by western powers

Soviet

council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917

VI Lenin

Russian communist who led Bolsheviks to victory in October Revolution

Cheka

The secret police under Lenin and his Communist Party

command economy

Government makes all economic decisions

collective

large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group

kulak

wealthy farmers

gulag

A system of brutal labor camps

socialist realism

a goal to show soviet life in a positive light

russification

imposing Russian culture on the diverse Soviet empire

atheism

Belief that there is no god.