CH.14 VOCAB HISTORY EXAM

entente

a nonbinding agreement to follow common policies

Alsace and Lorraine

provinces on the border of Germany and France, lost by France to Germany in 1871; regained by France after WWI

neutrality

supporting neither side in a war

stalemate

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

U-Boat

a German submarine

convoy

a group of merchant ships protected by warships

total war

channeling all of a nation's resources into a war effort

contraband

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

Lusitania

a British liner torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in May 1915

propaganda

spreading ideas to promote or damage a cause

armistice

an agreement to end fighting

Fourteen Points

US President Woodrow Wilson's list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars

self-determination

the right of people to choose their own form of government

reparations

payments for war damage

collective security

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