History Ch 21 Vocabulary- World War I

Question 1

militarism

Answer 1

the glorification of the military

Question 2

nationalism

Answer 2

pride in one’s nation or ethnic group

Question 3

stalemate

Answer 3

deadlock, neither side has a clear victory

Question 4

trench warfare

Answer 4

soldiers fire on one another from opposing lines of dugout trenches or ditches

Question 5

propaganda

Answer 5

the spread of information designed to win support for a cause

Question 6

dominate

Answer 6

to control or rule

Question 7

liable

Answer 7

likely to cause or have an effect

Question 8

mobilize

Answer 8

to prepare for war

Question 9

Jeannette Rankin

Answer 9

First woman elected to Congress, voted against Wilson’s war resolution, said “As a woman I can’t go to war and I refuse to send anyone else.”

Question 10

illiterate

Answer 10

unable to read and write

Question 11

Herbert Hoover

Answer 11

Chosen by Wilson to head a new Food Administration who directed relief efforts in Belgium. Urged Americans to conserve food.

Question 12

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 12

jailed for urging workers not to support the war effort, and a 5 time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party

Question 13

accelerate

Answer 13

to increase in speed; to move faster (Different than the scientific definition!)

Question 14

collide

Answer 14

to clash; to come together with great force

Question 15

convoy

Answer 15

large group of merchant vessels sailing together

Question 16

John J. Pershing

Answer 16

chosen by the US Army to command the American Expeditionary Force, as American troops in Europe were known.

Question 17

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 17

led a radical faction “the Bolsheviks” and intended to set Russia on the road to communism.

Question 18

communism

Answer 18

an economic and political system based on the idea that social classes and the right to private property should be eliminated

Question 19

armistice

Answer 19

a halt in fighting that allows peace talks to begin

Question 20

deprive

Answer 20

to keep from having; to take away by force

Question 21

dictate

Answer 21

to direct or order a specific action

Question 22

self-determination

Answer 22

the right of a group to decide its own form of government

Question 23

reparations

Answer 23

payments to cover war damages

Question 24

Henry Cabot Lodge

Answer 24

Powerful Republican senator from MA who opposed the Treaty of Versailles

Question 25

deport

Answer 25

returned to their home countries

Question 26

clause

Answer 26

part of a law, treaty, or other written agreement

Question 27

dissolve

Answer 27

to break up into smaller parts