Ww1 Flashcards
Nationalism
Strong feeling of pride in and devotion to ones country
Militarism
Glorification of the military
Imperialism
Domination by one country of the political economic or cultural life of another country or region
Propaganda
Spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
Reparations
Payment for war damages or damage caused by imprisonment
Woodrow wilson
Prime minister of the uk
Edith cavell
English nurse in belgium cared for both sides shot for being a spy
Georges clemenceau
French leader attentended the peace conference
Alfred noble
Swedish chemist
Created dynamite
1866
Gavrili princip
Assassinated archduke ferdinand
Total war
Channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort
Neutrality
Policy of supporting neither side in war
Kaiser william 2
Cousins with george v and nicholas tsar 2
Blamed them for the war
Francis ferdinand
Archduke of austria
Assassinated
Part of why war started
Bertha von sutner
Wrote a book about peace and war
Kulak
Wealthy peasant in the soviet union
Totalitarian state
Government in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens lived
Socialist realism
Artistic style whose goal was to promote socialism by showing soviet life in a positive light
Leninl
Leader of the bolsheviks
Joseph stalin
Leader of russia after lenin died
Gregory rasputin
Right hand man to alexandria
Couldnt be killed
Nicholas 2
Last leader of the tsars
Russia
Weak
Osip mandelstam
Jewish poet who made fun of stalin
Command economy
System in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
Leon trotsky
Led the marxist revolutinary
Anna akhmatova
Russias grestest poet
Couldnt write cause writing didnt follow guidlines
Mikhail sholokhov
Won noble peace for lit
Stale mate
Dead lock in which neither side is able to defeat the other
Allied countries
Uk France Us Russia Serbia Later italy
Central poweres
Germany
Austria hungary
Italy
Treaty of brest litovsk
Ended russias involvment in the war
Lusitania
British ship that was bombed by german u boats
Lenins economic policy
Small businesses were allowed to reopen
Larger business were still controlled by government
Stalins 5 year plan
Improved transportation
Fix the economy
Businesses under government controll
Stalemate was caused by
Machine guns
Treaty of versailles
Brat
B- germany took the blame for starting the war
R- paid for reparations
A- army of 100000 men no submarines airforce navy of 6 ships
T- lost territory in europe
