World history vocab unit 2
Entente: non binding agreement to Follow common policies
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
Ultimatum: final set of demands
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
Convoy System: group of merchant ships protected by warships
Dardanelles: vital strait connecting the Black Sea &
Mediterranean Sed :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 (8 also raw materiale) 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 & damage an apposing cause
Atrocity: horrible act committed against innocent ppl
14 points: terms of resolving ww1 & 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 and in fighting of war
Pandemic: Spread of disease across large area, country, continent, or world
Reparation: payment for war damage or: damage by imprisonment
Radical: 1 who favors extreme changes
Collective Security: system where group of nations act as 1
to preserve peaceMandate: after ww1, a territory administered by a Western: power
Proletariat: Working class
Soviet:council of workers/soldiers set up. by Russian revolutionaries in 1917