WW1

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

Ultimatum

Answer 2

Final set of demands

Question 3

Mobilize

Answer 3

Prepare military forces for war

Question 4

Neutrality

Answer 4

Policy of supporting neither side in a war

Question 5

Entente

Answer 5

Non-binding agreement to follow common policies

Question 6

Alsace and Lorraine

Answer 6

Provinces on the border of Germany and France lost by France to Germany in 1871; regained by France after World War I

Question 7

Stalemate

Answer 7

Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

Question 8

Zeppelin

Answer 8

Large gas filled balloon

Question 9

U-boat

Answer 9

German submarine

Question 10

Convoy

Answer 10

Group of merchant ships protected by warships

Question 11

Dardanelles

Answer 11

Vital strait connecting the black sea and the Mediterranean sea in present-day Turkey

Question 12

Total war

Answer 12

Channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort

Question 13

Propaganda

Answer 13

Spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

Question 14

Atrocities

Answer 14

Horrible act committed against innocent people

Question 15

Armistice

Answer 15

Agreement to end fighting in a war

Question 16

Conscription

Answer 16

“the draft,” which required all young men to be ready for military or other service

Question 17

Fourteen Points

Answer 17

List of terms for resolving World War I and future war outline by American president Woodrow Wilson in January 1918

Question 18

Self-determination

Answer 18

Right of people to choose their own form of government

Question 19

Contraband

Answer 19

During wartime, military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent

Question 20

Reparations

Answer 20

Payment for war damage or damage caused by imprisonment

Question 21

Mandate

Answer 21

After World War I a territory administered by a western power

Question 22

Pandemic

Answer 22

Spread of disease across a large area, country, continent or the entire world

Question 23

Radicals

Answer 23

Those who favor extreme changes

Question 24

Collective security

Answer 24

System in which a group of nations act as one to preserve the peace of all