Shared Flashcard Set

Details

World War 1
World War 1
59
Social Studies
9th Grade
02/07/2012

Additional Social Studies Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Triple Alliance
Definition
an alliance that Germany started with Austria-Hungary and Italy
Term
Triple Entente
Definition
an alliance with France, Russia, and Great Britain
Term
Alliances
Definition
Alliance means that a group of people are together and will protect each other, saying that they got each others back. It also gives nations strategic advantages
Term
Militarism
Definition
The glorification and building up of the armed forces. This gives a country an advantage over other countries
Term
Rivalries
Definition
Two countries that our enemies, that our trying to over the same thing
Term
Imperialism
Definition
This mean that a country is trying gain land, get more resources. This Creates rivalries between two countries.
Term
Nationalism
Definition
This means "the love of one's country, rather than their native region." When people support their country and they want to spread what they do their because they think its better than any other
Term
Mobilization
Definition
Getting ready to go to war, like getting your troops together and your supplies
Term
Ultimatum
Definition
Your giving a demand to the person or else
Term
The Balkan "Powder Keg"
Definition
The Balkan "powder Keg" means that their was a lot of tension in Bulgaria. And what happened was that Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife are assassinated on their way to Sarajevo. The tension symbolizes the Powder and keg and when things got out of control it "blew up"
Term
Propaganda
Definition
ideas or facts to persuade people to support your or run against your opponent
Term
War of Attrition
Definition
slow wearing-down manner of warfare in which each side tries to outlast the other
Term
Stalemate
Definition
neither side is winning
Term
Poison Gases
Definition
a gas that's poison and used it in world war 1
Term
No Man's Land
Definition
the land in the middle where no one can go
Term
Trench Warfare
Definition
combat machine guns and artillery protective trenches were dug
Term
Lusitania
Definition
The boat the Germans sunk and was one of the reasons the US got involved in world war 1
Term
Central Powers
Definition
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
Term
Allied Powers
Definition
Great Britain, France, Russia and other partners (32)
Term
Zimmermann Telegram
Definition
Aurthur Zimmermann sent a secret telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico.
Term
Abdicate
Definition
when a kind gives up his throne
Term
Mensheviks
Definition
The moderates who had lost against the Bolsheviks
Term
Bolsheviks
Definition
The Radicals led by Vladimir Lenin and had defeated the Mensheviks
Term
Red Army
Definition
The Communist forces that defeated the White Army
Term
Whites (Russia)/White Army
Definition
Counter-revolutionary and had lost to the Red Army
Term
Communist Party
Definition
The new name of the Bolsheviks
Term
Communism
Definition
economic and political system in which governments own the means of production and control economic planning
Term
USSR
Definition
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the new name of Russia)
Term
Duma
Definition
Elected Parliament for Russia
Term
Russian Civil War
Definition
War between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks that lasted for three years and the Bolsheviks
Term
Bolshevik Revolution (October Revolution)
Definition
Term
Petrograd Soviet
Definition
Term
Armistice
Definition
an agreement to stop fighting and the Germans sign one ending world war 1
Term
Reparations
Definition
Payment for War damages
Term
Paris Peace Conference
Definition
This meeting was brought forth by the Allied Powers to arrange peace terms. The meeting was dominated by the leaders of the four major Allied Powers.
Term
League of Nations
Definition
Term
Mandate
Definition
Term
Economic Sanctions
Definition
Term
Genocide
Definition
Term
Treaty of Versailles
Definition
This treaty was a peace treaty and the treaty was signed by the Germans at Versailles, near Paris
Term
Fourteen Points
Definition
Written by Woodrow Wilson for a plan that stated a just world, to stop another war from happening
Term
Weimar Republic
Definition
Term
World Court
Definition
Term
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Definition
Austria-Hungary
Term
Czar Nicholas Romanov
Definition
Russia
Term
Vladimir Lenin
Definition
Russia/USSR
Term
Kairser Wilhelm
Definition
Germany
Term
Vittorio Emanuel Orlando
Definition
Italy
Term
David Lloyd George
Definition
UK
Term
Georges Clemenceau
Definition
France
Term
Woodrow Wilson
Definition
US
Term
Name and explain the four factors in Europe that would contribute to making WW 1 likely to occur
Definition
Term
Know who belongs to what alliance, and why countries decide to enter the war
Definition
Term
WW1 was fought in a new way; know some of the new weapons utilized for the first time as well as the reasons that WW1 became the first "total war"
Definition
Term
Know the sequence of events happening in Russia from the abdication of the czar, through the revolutions and civil war to the formation of the soviet union
Definition
Term
Consider the goals of the Allies post war and how those aims resulted in the formation of many new countries as well as the terms of the treaty of Versailles
Definition
Term
President Wilson created the fourteen points as a plan for post war peace. be able to name the six general points of Wilson's fourteen points as well as the reasoning behind the formation of the league of nations
Definition
Term
Why didn't the US ratify the treaty of Versailles or join the league of nation
Definition
Term
What does the Armenian Genocide indicate about human rights after WW1
Definition
Supporting users have an ad free experience!