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VOCABULARY QUIZ #5 Flashcards

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The Great War

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nickname for WWI (1914-1918)

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total war

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type of war in which government mobilized virtually every person natural resource available to support the war effort

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self-determination

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belief that national groups should have the right to govern themselves independently

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Pan-Slavism

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Slavic nationalism

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Triple Entente

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alliance of Britain, France, Russia and the US during WWI

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Triple Alliance

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alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire during WWI

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Western Front

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WWI battle ground fought between a united France and Britain vs. Germany

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Eastern Front

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WWI battle ground fought between a united Germany and Austria-Hungary vs. Russia

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trench warfare

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type of warfare in which soldiers dug opposing trenches for protection from the enemy

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“no man’s land”

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area of death and destruction between the opposing trenches where most of the battles took place

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Zionism

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Jewish nationalism that sought an independent Jewish homeland in the Middle East

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Balfour Declaration

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secret agreement the British government made with the Jewish nationalists in the Ottoman Empire promising them land after the war if they supported the Allies

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conscription

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mandatory military service

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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agreement to end fighting between Germany and Russia after the collapse of the Russian government and the takeover by Soviet communists in 1918

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fourteen points

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US President Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace following WWI which sought “peace without victory”

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reparations

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payments Germany was forced to pay following WWI in order to cover the Allied war expenses

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“war-guilt” clause

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wording in the Treaty of Versailles which placed full blame for WWI on Germany

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mandates

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Germany’s overseas territories which fell under the control of Britain, France and Japan after WWI

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League of Nations

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peace-keeping organization that was created as a result of Wilson’s Fourteen Points, but was weak and ineffective because the US did not join

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Ataturk

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Mustafa Kemal fought for Turkish self- sovereignty after WWI and helped to bring about the establishment of Turkey

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collective security

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policy of the League of Nations that if any member nation was attacked, the others would provide military aid

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Vladimir Lenin

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Bolshevik leader of the Russian Revolution, first communist ruler of the Soviet Union

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revolution of 1905

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revolt against the Russia’s Czar Nicholas II following Russia’s defeat to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War

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duma

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Russia’s first elected parliament, originally weak and corrupt

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soviet

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a council of workers in Russia

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nationalization

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state takeover of industry under Lenin’s new Soviet government

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Leon Trotsky

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Lenin’s second-in-command leader of the Bolshevik party

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red army

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the Bolshevik army led by Lenin during the Russian Revolution

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new economic policy

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Lenin’s communist program marked by changes to the economy of the USSR, also known as NEP

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joseph stalin

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communist dictator of the USSR (1927-1953) following Lenin’s death, rule marked by terror, violence and strict state censorship

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revolution of 1911

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overthrow of the Qing dynasty in China and an attempt by the leader Sun Yat-sen to institute a democratic republic

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guomindang

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Chinese nationalist party led by Sun Yat-sen

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Mao Zedong

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leader of China’s communist party, who instituted communism in China

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the long March

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Mao Zedong’s army across China by Chiang Kai-shek and his supporters, led to the communists gaining power and supporters along the way

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