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SS- Chapter 27
Question | Answer |
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militarism | glorification of the military |
ultimatum | a final set of demands |
mobilize | to prepare military forces for war |
propaganda | ideas that are spread to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
reparations | payments for war damages |
neutrality | taking neither side in disputes |
total war | channeling all of a country's resources into a war effort |
mandates | territories administered by another nation(s) |
armistice | agreement to end fighting |
Germany | __ joined the Triple Alliance to protect itself against France. |
Bosnia | On the eve of WWI, ___ was ruled by Austria-Hungary. |
automatic machine gun | The __ was the weapon that contributed most to the stalemate on the western front during WWI because trench warfare made it possible for troops to advance. |
modern weapons | WWI was more destructive because __ were more deadly. |
Ottoman empire | The __ joined the Central Powers in WWI. |
United States | The involvement of the __ had the greatest impact on the outcome of WWI. |
submarine | The __ helped turn WWI into a global war. |
women | __ kept their nations going during WWI. |
Treat of Best-Litovsk | The __ had the greatest immediate effect on WWI because it took Russia out of the war and allowed Germany to move its troops to the western front. |
Europe | In 1918, __ was in ruins. |
Francis Ferdinand | __ was the heir to the Austrian throne. |
Woodrow Wilson | __ was the author of Fourteen Points. |
George Clemenceau | __ was the french representative to the Paris Peace Conference who demanded that Germany be punished. |
Kaiser William II | __ was the German leader who supported Austria's war with Serbia. |
Gavrilo Princip | __ was the Serbian revolutionary who assassinated the heir to the Austrian throne. |
Black Hand | __ was the terrorist organization that planned the assassination of Francis Ferdinand. |
League of Nations | The __ is a group of 4o nations whose goal is to keep peace by using diplomacy to avoid war. |
Major causes of WWI: | aggressive nationalism, economic and imperial rivalries, militarism and arms races, formation of alliances, assassination of Austrian heir, Germany telling Austria not to back down from its ulimatum to Serbia. |
Examples of aggressive nationalism during WWI | Alsace-Lorraine, Pan-Slavism, Crisisin Balkans |
Examples of economic and imperial rivalries during WWI | Germany/Britain-industries, competition for colonies between Germany and France |
Triple Alliance | Austria-Hungary, Italy, Germany (with exception of Italy becomes Central Powers |
Triple Entente | France, Russia, Britain (Becomes Allied Powers) |
Technology of WWI (first mechanized war) | automatic machine gun, tank, submarine (U boat), airplane, poison gas and gas masks |
Front | area where fighting is going on |
colonies | __ provided troops, laborers, and supplies during WWI. |
Women | took men's place in the factories, etc. (kept the nation going); served as nurses, ambulance drivers, clerks, telegraph operators in the war effort; had to give up their jobs after the war |
Three reasons the US entered the war: | unrestricted submarine warfare, cultural ties, Zimmerman note |