World War One || Vocab

Entente

Nonbinding agreement to follow common policies

Militarism

Glorification of the military

Ultimatum

Final set of demand

Mobilize

Prepare military forces for war

Neutrality

Policy of supporting neither side in a war

Stalemate

Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

Zeppelin

Large gas-filled balloon

U-boat

German submarine

Conscription

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

Contraband

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

Propaganda

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

Armistice

Agreement to end fighting in a war

Reparation

Payment for war damage or damage caused by imprisonment

Mandate

After World War 1, a territory administered by a Western power

Soviet

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

Cheka

early Soviet secret police force

Lusitania

British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915

Fourteen Points

list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918

Collective Security

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

Self-determination

Right of people to choose their own form of government