World history vocab unit 2

Entente

nonbinding agreement to follow common policies

Militarism

glorification of the military

Alsace & Lorraine

Region of Northern Europe on border between France and Germany, which was ceded to Germany after the Franco Prussian war

Ultimatum

Final set of demands

Mobilize

Prepare military for war

Neutrality

Policy of supporting neither side in a war

Stalemate

Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

Zeppeline

Large gas filled balloon

U boat

German submarine

Convoy system

Group of merchant ships protected by warships

Dardanelles

Vital strait connecting the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea (present day turkey)

Total war

Channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort

Conscription

“The draft” which required all young men to be ready for military or other service

contraband

Military supplies needed/ raw material to make military supply that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent

Lusitania

British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in may 1915

Propaganda

Spread of ideas to promote a cause and damage an opposing cause

Atrocity

Horrible act committed to innocent people

Fourteen points

Terms of resolving WW1 and future wars outlined by American president Woodrow Wilson in Jan. 1918

Self-determination

Right of ppl to choose their own form of gov.

Armistice

Agreement of end in fighting of war