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terms for test on World Wars
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History
10th Grade
02/01/2012

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Volk
Definition
the german people
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total war
Definition
war that uses a country's entire military and economy
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Holocaust
Definition
nazi attempt to exterminate all Jewish people
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Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand
Definition
Austro Hung. - assasinated by Serbian nationalist while on a journey touring Serbia
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Mustard Gas
Definition
clorine gas used in WWI
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Trench Warefare
Definition
in trenches fighting, after a long period of artillery shelling, officers blow whisltes and rush out- everyone follows behind
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U- boat
Definition
Early German submarine
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Battle of tsingao
Definition
Japanese seized territory in China
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Twenty One Demands
Definition
Japanese demands to Germans about control over mancheria
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Nishihora Loans
Definition
Japanese loans to China in turn for territory
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Turco- German Alliance
Definition
Ottoman Empire joins Germans
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Fetva (Fatva)
Definition
Sultan Mehmed V issued this in November 1914- call to all Muslims for Jihad against Allies
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General Fredrick Maude
Definition
Took control of British forces in Mesopotamia after the seige of Kut- won battle of baghdad and remained undefeated- turned that front around!
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Douglas Haig
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commanded british troops from 1915- led battle of Somme, used 19th century tactics in a 20th century war
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Battle of Somme
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600,000 british casualties, 400,000 german
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Lusitania Notes
Definition
U.S- wanted Germany to stop unrestricted submarine atacks (germany justified it) - 2nd and 3rd notes from U.S went unreplied- then…… WAR
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U- 20
Definition
the german submarine which sank the Lusitania
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Church Peace Union
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IDK
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Spanish flu
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50-100 million deaths world wide,
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Wilfred Owen
Definition
poet
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Seigfried Sassoon
Definition
poet- To Victory- war=bad
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Patriotism
Definition
documents- everyone= excited for war- military service
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Alsace and Lorraine
Definition
Germany took over these border cities after Franco- Prussian War- weakening French revenge
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Triple Alliance
Definition
Germany, Italy, Austria
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Alienation
Definition
Bismark- France, William II- Russia
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Entente
Definition
understanding
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Anglo- French Entente & Anglo- Russian Agreement
Definition
first agreement, Britain would come to aide of France in a defensive war
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Western Front
Definition
France and Belgium
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Eastern Front
Definition
Russia/ Balkins
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Alpine Front
Definition
only Italy and Austria- Hungary
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Central Powers
Definition
German- Austrian allies
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Fourteen Points
Definition
proposed by Woodrow Wilson- peace without victors= disarmament, freedom of seas, international peace keeping body
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Allied proposed armistice
Definition
November 1918 a
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Holocaust
Definition
nazi attempt to exterminate all Jewish people
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Successor States
Definition
Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia and somewhat Romania- states that declared independence after the war
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League of Nations
Definition
a new international organization established to maintain peace and promote amity among nations- congress didn't ratify
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Reparations question
Definition
how much does Germany owe- 33 billion?
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Weimar Republic
Definition
economy based on the Weimar Constitution- liberal, economic, democratic government
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Dawes Plan
Definition
US sponsored- induced the French to leave the Rur, forgo some of the reparations payements, and spread the remaining installments over a considerably longer time period of the Germans would resume payments
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Irrendentism
Definition
the movement to split away from one's present country in order to unite with a neighboring, ethnically similar state
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Nuremberg Laws
Definition
prohibited social contact between Jews and Aryans
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Wannsee conference
Definition
where the nazis came up with the "Final Solution" for the Jews
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