Chapter 17 Vocab

Question 1

Reinsurance treaty

Answer 1

Bismarck secret treaty with Russia

Question 2

Wilhelm II

Answer 2

Ruler of Germany, who dismissed Bismarck and allowed the reinsurance treaty to expire

Question 3

Triple Entente

Answer 3

loose confederation between Russia, England, and France prior to World War I

Question 4

June 28, 1914

Answer 4

Date of the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary

Question 5

Francis Ferdinand

Answer 5

archduke who was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, and was assassinated in 1914

Question 6

Central Powers

Answer 6

alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during World War I

Question 7

Allies

Answer 7

Alliance of Russia, Serbia, and France in World War I; alliance of Britain, France, and Poland ( And later the US and the Soviet union )in World War III

Question 8

Schlieffen Plan

Answer 8

Germany’s two front war strategy during World War I, in which Germany would quickly conquer France, and then fight Russia

Question 9

Stalemate

Answer 9

War time condition in which two opposing forces have no major gains on either side

Question 10

Civil Religion

Answer 10

The use of religion to promote the goals of the state

Question 11

Total War

Answer 11

War, in which all of the countries resources are devoted to destroying the enemy; war in which there are no limits on targets, or the kind of weapons used

Question 12

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 12

communist leader, who came to power in the Russian revolution and signed a treaty with the Germans, which took Russia out of World War II

Question 13

Paris Peace Conference

Answer 13

Conference after World War II, where five treaties were formulated, including the treaty of Versailles

Question 14

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 14

Treaty between the allies in Germany that contained harsh demand, and blamed Germany for World War I

Question 15

Bolsheviks

Answer 15

Radical Russian political group, led by Lenin that supported the violent overthrow of the monarchy

Question 16

Mensheviks

Answer 16

the more moderate russian political group who sought peaceful changes

Question 17

Joseph Stalin

Answer 17

The second dictator of the Soviet Union; continued, and intensified oppression of religion (1879-1953)

Question 18

Weimar Republic

Answer 18

German government after World War II; organized at Weimar

Question 19

Nazi

Answer 19

The national socialist, German workers party led by Adolf Hitler

Question 20

Adolf Hitler

Answer 20

Lead the Nazi party and use the political process to gain control of the German government

Question 21

Benito Mussolini

Answer 21

Formed the fascist Party in Italy, gradually transformed Italy into a dictatorship

Question 22

Lateran Treaties

Answer 22

Agreements between Mussolini and Vatican City that ended the popes Opposition to Italys Unified government

Question 23

League of Nations

Answer 23

An organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson, that was supposed to bring about international cooperation

Question 24

Washington Naval Conference

Answer 24

Meeting of several nations that agreed to limit the number of warships each each could built

Question 25

Locarno Pact

Answer 25

An agreement, Germany, signed with France and Belgium, recognizing its present borders with those two nations as Permanent

Question 26

Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 26

Agreement signed after World War I, by which nations agreed to settle their dispute by negotiation rather than force

Question 27

Sun Yat-Sen

Answer 27

leader that worked to bring reform to China; struggle to bring unity to China through the Kuomintang or nationalist party

Question 28

Kuomintang

Answer 28

nationalist Chinese party in the early 1900s

Question 29

Ching Kai-Shek

Answer 29

Leader of the kuomintang Party in China, following the death of Sun Yat-sen

Question 30

Chinese Communist Party

Answer 30

Radical element of the kuomintang party

Question 31

Mao Zedong

Answer 31

Lead the Chinese communist party in the stirred up peasant revolts in order to undermine the conservative government of Chang kia - shek

Question 32

Pan-Arabism

Answer 32

movement started by air Arabs to seek a United States of Arabia and an Arab league that would spread from the west coast of northern Africa to Saudi Arabia

Question 33

Pierre and Marie Curie

Answer 33

French physicist who pioneer work in radioactive matter

Question 34

Albert Einstein

Answer 34

Made tremendous contributions to science with his theories on the relationship between modern energy; father of modern physics

Question 35

Expressionism

Answer 35

Art style after World War I that emphasized how the artist felt on his subject

Question 36

Cubism

Answer 36

art style after World War I that showed subjects in geometric shapes, and from several perspectives at once

Question 37

Great depression

Answer 37

An economic downturn in the US during the 20th century; affected many other nations

Question 38

Federal reserve

Answer 38

American agency that controls the US money supply and works to protect the American banking system

Question 39

Smoot

Answer 39

hawkeye tariff act -Established the highest tariff ( Duty or tax on foreign products ) in US history