Vocab 2/29 Flashcards
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Use of subs to sink, without warning, any ship in enemy waters.
rationing
limiting the amount of goods people can buy, issued by the government.
armistice
an agreement to stop fighting.
Wilson’s fourteen points
A series of proposals in which the US President Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI.
League of Nations
An international association formed after WWI with goals of keeping peace among nations.
reparations
Money paid by a defeated country after war, for the deaths, damage, ect.
War guilt cause
Portion of the Versailles treaty that blames only Germany for causing the war, major cause of the rise of national socialism in Germany (NAZI Party)
Self-determination
The freedom of the people to decide under what form of government they wish to have.
Treaty of Versailles
The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after WWI.
Schlieffen Plan
Germany’s military plan at the outbreak of WWI according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France, then attack Russia.
Lusitania
A British passenger ship that was sunk by German subs that killed 1195 people off the Irish coast and killed Americans and brought the US into the war.
Zimmermann Note
Dispatch that instructed German Ambassador to Mexico to offer a military alliance if the US entered the war. Germany would offer aid to Mexico to gain back Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.
War of Attrition
a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy loss.
Bolsheviks
A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October revolution of 1917.
communism
A way of organizing a society in which the government owns things that are used to make and transport products and there is no privately owned property.
