World History Chapter 13 Vocabulary

Trench warfare

a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

Triple Alliance

a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I.

Triple Entente

a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.

Imperialism

a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.

militarism

a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.

Fourteen Points

a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.

armistice

an agreement to stop fighting

League of Nations

an international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations.

Central Powers

in World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side.

Eastern front

in World War I, the region along the German- Russian border where Russians and Serbs battle Germans, Austrians, and Turks.

Western Front

in World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.

propaganda

information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause.

Alliance systems

the "Triple Entente" or Allies-France, Britain, and Russia vs. the "Central Powers" Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Germany, and Austria

Nationalism

the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation-that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history-rather than to a king or empire.

rationing

the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply.

Treaty of Versailles

the peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I.

Unrestricted submarine warfare

the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters.

Zimmerman Note

1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S. It was intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilized against Germany, which had proven it was hostile

Total War

A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields.

Allied Powers

Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.

Franz Ferdinand

Archduke of Austria Hungary who was assassinated at Sarajevo by a Serbian terrorist group called the Black Hand; his death was a main cause for World War I

Lusitania

British merchant liner carrying ammunition and passengers that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915. The loss of 139 American lives on board was a factor bringing the United States into World War I

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Emperor of Germany during World War I

Schlieffen Plan

Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.

The Big Four

Italy, France, England, and the U.S. 4 powers who met at Versallies to discuss peace