CH. 25 Flashcards

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Triple Alliance

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The alliance of Austria, Germany, and Italy. Italy left the alliance when war broke out in 1914 on the grounds that Austria had launched a war of aggression.

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Triple Entente

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The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia prior to and during the First World War.

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Schlieffen Plan

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Failed German plan calling for a lightning attack through neutral Belgium and a quick defeat of France before turning on Russia.

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total war

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A war in which distinctions between the soldiers on the battlefield and civilians at home are blurred, and where the government plans and controls economic and social life in order to supply the armies at the front with supplies and weapons.

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trench warfare

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A type of fighting used in World War I behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire; the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal.

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February Revolution

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Unplanned uprisings accompanied by violent street demonstrations begun in March 1917 (old calendar February) in Petrograd, Russia, that led to the abdication of a provisional government.

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Petrograd Soviet

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A huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two or three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals modeled on the revolutionary soviets of 1905.

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Bolsheviks

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Lenin’s radical revolutionary arm of the Russian party of Marxist socialism, which successfully installed a dictatorial socialist regime in Russia.

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia that ended Russian participation in World War I and ceded Russian territories containing a third of the Russian empire’s population to the Central Powers.

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War Communism

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The application of centralized state control during the Russian civil war, in which the Bolsheviks seized grain from peasants, introduced rationing, nationalized all banks and industry, and required everyone to work.

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Treaty of Versailles

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The 1919 peace settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers.

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Fourteen Points

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Wilson’s 1918 peace proposal calling for open diplomacy, a reduction in armaments, freedom of commerce and trade, the establishment of the League of Nations, and national self-determination.

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League of Nations

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A permanent international organization, established during the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, designed to protect member states from aggression and avert future wars.

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national self-determination

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The notion that peoples should be able to choose their own national governments through democratic majority-rule elections and live free from outside interference in nation-states with clearly defined borders.

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war guilt clause

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An article in the Treaty of Versailles that declared that Germany (with Austria) was solely responsible for the war and had to pay reparations equal to all civilian damages caused by the fighting.

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mandate system

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The plan to allow Britain and France to administer former Ottoman territories, put into place after the end of the First World War.

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Balfour Declaration

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A 1917 British statement that declared British support of a National Home for the Jewish People in Palestine.