World history vocab unit 2

  1. Entente: non binding agreement to Follow common policies

  2. Militarism: glorification of the military

3. Alsace & Lorraine: region of northern Europe on border. between France & Germany, which was ceded to. Germany, which was ceded to Germany after the Franco - Prussian War

  1. Ultimatum: final set of demands

  2. Mobilize: prepare military forces for war

  3. Neutrality: policy of supporting neither side in a war

  4. Stalemate: deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

  5. Zeppelin: large gas filled balloon

  6. U-boat: German submarine

  7. Convoy System: group of merchant ships protected by warships

  8. Dardanelles: vital strait connecting the Black Sea &

  9. Mediterranean Sed :present day Turkey)

  10. Total War: channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort

  11. Conscription: "the draft", which required all young men to be ready for military or other service

  12. Contraband: military supplies needed (8 also raw materiale) to make military supply that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent

  13. Lusitania: British liner torpedoed by a German Submarine in May 1915

  14. Propaganda: spread of ideas to promote a cause & damage an apposing cause

  15. Atrocity: horrible act committed against innocent ppl

  16. 14 points: terms of resolving ww1 & future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in Jan. 1918

  17. self-determination:right of ppl to choose their own form of gov.

  18. Armistice: agreement of and in fighting of war

    Pandemic: Spread of disease across large area, country, continent, or world

  19. Reparation: payment for war damage or: damage by imprisonment

  20. Radical: 1 who favors extreme changes

  21. Collective Security: system where group of nations act as 1
    to preserve peace

  22. Mandate: after ww1, a territory administered by a Western: power

  23. Proletariat: Working class

  24. Soviet:council of workers/soldiers set up. by Russian revolutionaries in 1917