Western Civ Ch:9 Terms

Triple alliance

An alliance from the 1802s until World War I between Austria-Hungary, Germany, and Italy( also called Central Powers). At the beginning of the war, Italy left the alliance and joined the Allies

Triple Entente

The loose alliance between Britain, France, and Russia from 1907, becoming a formal alliance at the beginning of World War I in 1914 (also called the Allied Powers).

Balkans

The Balkan peninsula in southeastern Europe comprises Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, and parts of former Yugoslavia.

Archduke Ferdinand

(1863–1914) was the heir to the Austro-Hungarian thronewhose assassination in Sarajevo triggered the start of World War I.

Kaiser Wilhelm

(1859–1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling from 1888 until his abdication at the end of World War I in 1918.

Fourteen points

The World War I peace proposal of US president Woodrow Wilson in 1918; included appeals for self-determination of nations and the creation of the League of Nations.

National self determination

The doctrine that postulates the right of a nation to have its own state and to choose its own form of government.

League of Nations

An international organization formed after World War I to promote security; a predecessor to the United Nations.

Mandates

The arrangement whereby the colonial territories of the defeated states in World War I (Germany and Turkey) were placed by the League of Nations under the guardianship of the Allied powers.

Collective security

The organizing principle behind the League of Nations and the United Nations, which held that aggression against one country would be treated as aggression against all countries, and therefore the collapse of communism in 1989-91.