WHII.10 World War I Terms
1. Alliance system-a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations
to cooperate for specific purposes.
2. Triple Entente (Allied Powers)- an alliance between Britain, France and
Russia),
3. Triple Alliance (Central Powers)- was the military alliance among
Germany, Austria--Hungary, and Italy
4. Imperialism-a policy of extending a country's power and influence through
diplomacy or military force.
5. Militarism-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.
6. Archduke Franz Ferdinand-archduke of Austria: his assassination
precipitated the outbreak of World War I
7. Gavrilo Princip-was a Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz
Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie,
8. Woodrow Wilson-28th President of the United States; led the United States
in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations (18561924
9. Kaiser Wilhelm II-Kaiser of Germany and king of Prussia (1888-1918).
Grandson of Queen Victoria, he supported the Afrikaners in South Africa and
Austria's demands on Serbia (1914). He was forced to abdicate at the end of
World War I.
10. Lusitania-a British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North
Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World
War I.
11. Zimmerman Telegram-was an internal 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.
12. Treaty of Versailles, 1919-the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied
powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant
reparations from the Germans
13. Reparations-the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying
money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
14. League of Nations-An international organization established after World
War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. The League, the
forerunner of the United Nations, brought about much international
cooperation on health, labor problems, refugee affairs, and the like.
15. 1917 Russian Revolution-The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a
pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy
and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union.
16. Tsar Nicholas II-The last czar of Russia (1894-1917),
Bolshevik Party- 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
17. Vladimir Lenin-Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian
Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
18. New Economic Policy-a program in effect from 1921 to 1928, reviving the
wage system and private ownership of some factories and businesses, and
abandoning grain requisitions.
19. Joseph Stalin-Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist
Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
20. Mandate System-was a compromise between the Allies' wish to retain the
former German and Turkish colonies and their pre-Armistice declaration
(November 5, 1918) that annexation of territory was not their aim in the
war.
21. Stock Market Crash of 1929-also known as Black Tuesday,[1] the Great
Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began on October 24, 1929, and
was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United
States, when taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its
fallout.[2] The crash signaled the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression
that affected all Western industrialized countries
22. National Socialists German Workers’ Party (Nazi Party)- Under the
leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled
Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945.