Chapter 11 Vocab (abby)

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

The police of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war

Question 2

Imperialism

Answer 2

Extending one nations power over other countries

Question 3

Allied powers

Answer 3

Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States.

Question 4

Central powers

Answer 4

Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire.

Question 5

No mans land

Answer 5

Land not claimed or fought on during war, no side owns it and no side goes on it

Question 6

Trench warfare

Answer 6

Military operations from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield

Question 7

Select service act

Answer 7

A law enacted that required men to sign up for the military

Question 8

AEF

Answer 8

consisted of the United States Armed Forces sent to Europe under the command of General John J. Pershing in 1917 to help fight World War I .
- American expedition forces

Question 9

Conscientious objector

Answer 9

A persons who refuses, on moral grounds, to participate in warfare

Question 10

Armistice

Answer 10

A truce, or agreement to end an armed conflict

Question 11

Propaganda

Answer 11

A kind of biases communication designed to influence people’s thoughts and actions

Question 12

Espionage/sedition act

Answer 12

Two laws enacted in 1917 and 1918 that imposed harsh penalties on anyone inferring with or speaking against U.S. participation in ww1

Question 13

Nationalism

Answer 13

A devotion to the interests and culture of ones nation

Question 14

Great migration

Answer 14

the movement of 6 million blacks out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970.

Question 15

14 points

Answer 15

Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War I. President Woodrow Wilson

Question 16

League of Nations

Answer 16

an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946.

Question 17

Reparations

Answer 17

compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war.