history vocab terms

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

he desire that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

Question 2

Alliances

Answer 2

a formal agreement between two or more countries to mutually support each other in the event of war

Question 3

Mobilization

Answer 3

the process of organizing a nation’s resources and military forces to prepare for a national emergency or war

Question 4

Casualty -

Answer 4

a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action

Question 5

Armistice -

Answer 5

an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce.

Question 6

Treaty

Answer 6

a formally concluded and ratified (approved) agreement between countries.

Question 7

Stalemate

Answer 7

a situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible.

Question 8

total war

Answer 8

Total war is a type of conflict in which a nation mobilizes all its resources—economic, industrial, and civilian—for the war effort, and where there are no clear distinctions between military and civilian targets.

Question 9

central powers

Answer 9

The Central Powers of World War I was a coalition of nations that fought against the Allied Powers.
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
Bulgaria

Question 10

allied powers - triple entente

Answer 10

The alliance opposed the Central Powers and sought to counter their expansion and maintain global balance.
France
Russia
United Kingdom