World War I vocab

Question 1

Patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts

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Nationalism

Question 2

Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, known as Otto von Bismarck, was a conservative Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890

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Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

Question 3

Of the House of Hohenzollern was the King of Prussia and the first German Emperor, as well as the first Head of State of a united Germany

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Kaiser Wilhelm I

Question 4

The belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests

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Militarism

Question 5

Was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War

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Alsace – Lorraine

Question 6

Was an Archduke of Austria-Estes, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia and, from 1896 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne

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Arch Duke Ferdinand

Question 7

Was a member of Young Bosnia, a South Slav nationalist organization seeking an end to Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Gavrilo Princip

Question 8

(Of a country or its government) prepare and organize (troops) for active service

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Mobilize

Question 9

(Red) consist of Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire. Important allied powers (yellow) are Serbia, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium and the United States

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Central Powers

Question 10

Were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941), and China

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Allied Powers

Question 11

Is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy’s small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. The most famous use of trench warfare is the Western Front in World War I

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Trench warfare

Question 12

A position counting as a draw, in which a player is not in check but cannot move except into check

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Stalemate

Question 13

A German submarine

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U-Boats

Question 14

Not helping or supporting either side in a conflict, disagreement

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Neutral

Question 15

Was a British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in World War I, causing a major diplomatic uproar

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Lusitania

Question 16

Was an American orator and politician from Nebraska, and a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party’s nominee for President of the United States

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William Jennings Bryan

Question 17

was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 18

Was a promise made by Germany to the United States in 1916, during World War I before the U.S entered the war

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Sussex pledge

Question 19

Was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States’ entering World War I against Germany

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Zimmerman note

Question 20

Was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence U.S. public opinion regarding American participation in World War I

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Committee on Public Information (CPI)

Question 21

The practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information

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Espionage

Question 22

Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

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Sedition

Question 23

Authorized the federal government to raise a national army for the American entry into World War I through the compulsory enlistment of people

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Selective Service Act

Question 24

that was sold in the United States to support the allied cause in World War I

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Liberty Bonds

Question 25

Was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in women’s suffrage and world peace

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Jane Addams

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Was an American politician and women’s rights advocate, and the first woman to hold national office in the United States

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Jeanette Rankin

Question 27

May refer to either of two United States government agencies established to mediate labor disputes in wartime

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National War Labor Board

Question 28

was the expeditionary force of the United States Army during World War I

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American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)

Question 29

Was a senior United States Army officer, most famous as the commander of the American Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18

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General John J. Pershing

Question 30

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

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Bolsheviks

Question 31

A person who supports or believes in the principles of communism

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Communist

Question 32

Was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician, and political theorist

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Vladimir Lenin

Question 33

Was a French general and Marshal of France, Great Britain and Poland, a military theorist and the Supreme Allied Commander during the First World War

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Ferdinand Foch

Question 34

Was one of the most decorated United States Army soldiers of World War I.

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Alvin York

Question 35

Was an infantry regiment of the United States Army National Guard during World War I and World War II

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Harlem Hellfighters

Question 36

The art of planning and directing overall military operations and movements in a war or battle

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Strategy

Question 37

Was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

Question 38

Is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting

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Armistice

Question 39

A highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages causing fever, severe aching, and catarrh, and often occurring in epidemics

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Influenza

Question 40

Was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I

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Fourteen Points

Question 41

Was an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes

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League of Nations

Question 42

Was the meeting of the Allied victors, following the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers following the armistices of 1918

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Paris Peace Conference

Question 43

Are the four largest professional services networks in the world, offering audit, assurance services, taxation, management consulting, advisory, actuarial, corporate finance and legal services

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Big Four

Question 44

The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged

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Reparations

Question 45

Was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end

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Treaty of Versailles

Question 46

Was an American Republican Senator and historian from Massachusetts

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Henry Cabot Lodge

Question 47

A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War

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Arms Race

Question 48

A union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations

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Alliance