chapter 27 vocab

Question 1

submarine

Answer 1

u-boat

Question 2

group of merchant ships protected by warships

Answer 2

convoy

Question 3

payment for war damages or damages caused by imprisonment

Answer 3

reparations

Question 4

agreement to end fighting in a war

Answer 4

armistice

Question 5

nonbinding agreement to follow common policies

Answer 5

entente

Question 6

spreading of ideas to promote a certain cause or to damage an opposing cause

Answer 6

propaganda

Question 7

Alsace and lorraine

Answer 7

lost province

Question 8

empty tract of land where everything had been destroyed by war

Answer 8

no man’s land

Question 9

after world war I, a territory that was administered by a western power

Answer 9

mandate

Question 10

large, gas filled balloon

Answer 10

zeppelin

Question 11

spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world

Answer 11

pandemic

Question 12

system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all land

Answer 12

collective security

Question 13

brutal act committed against innocent people

Answer 13

atrocity

Question 14

policy of supporting neither side in a war

Answer 14

neutrality

Question 15

opposition to all war

Answer 15

pacifism

Question 16

right of people to choose their own form of government

Answer 16

self-determination

Question 17

channeling of nation’s entire resources into a war effort

Answer 17

total war

Question 18

powerful form of nationalism in russia

Answer 18

pan-slavism

Question 19

prepare military forces for war

Answer 19

mobilize

Question 20

glorification of the military

Answer 20

militarism

Question 21

‘the draft’, required all young men to be ready for military or other service

Answer 21

conscription

Question 22

deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

Answer 22

stalemate

Question 23

final set of demands

Answer 23

ultimatum