Chapter 16 Review Flashcards
Entente
Non-abiding agreement to follow common policies.
Militarism
Glorification of the military.
Ultimatum
Final set of demands
Mobilize
Preparing 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.
Zeppelins
A type of rigged airship used to drop bombs.
Convoys
A group of merchant ships protected by warships
Total War
The channeling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort.
Conscription
“The Draft”
Propaganda
The spread of ideas to promote a cause other than to damage an opposing cause.
Aristocracy
Class of person’s holding exceptional rank and nobility.
Self-determination
Right if the people to choose their own form of government
Armistice
An agreement to end fighting in the war.
Pandemic
When a disease spreads all across the known world.
Reperations
A punishment or penance.
Mandates
Something required by the government
Proleteriat
Working class
Soviets
Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917.
Cheka
Secret service of the Soviets.
Bolshevic
Means “Majority”
Commisars
Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach the party about their principles and to insure the loyalty during the Russian Revolution.
Who was in the triple alliance?
- Germany
- Austria
- Italy
- Ottoman Empire
Who was in the Triple Entente?
- England
- France
- Russia
- Belgium/Netherlands
