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World War 1
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9th Grade
05/16/2013

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Nationalism
Definition
The doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other.
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Treat of Versailles
Definition
ended WW1, required Germany to pay billions of dollars, established the League of Nations, U.S never signed it
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Zimmerman Telegram
Definition
a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing a German Mexican alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the USA entered WW1
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Dictator
Definition
A person behaves in an tyrannical manner.
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
The 28th President of the U.S from 1913- 1921. He led the United States during WW1 and helped found the League of Nations.
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Armistice
Definition
a decision to stop fighting at least for a while.
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Herbert Hoover
Definition
President at the beginning of the Great Depression
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Fascism
Definition
An extreme form of nationalism that played on fears of communism and rejected individual freedom, liberal, individualism, democracy, and limitations on the state.
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Appeasement
Definition
To preserve peace by meeting the demands of an aggressor.
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Franz Ferdinand
Definition
The Archduke of Austria who was assassinated thus beginning WW1
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Imperialism
Definition
A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries.
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World War 1
Definition
This war encompassed most of the industrialized nations of the world from 1914-18.
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Dollar Diplomacy
Definition
Under the Progressuve President William Howard Taft. Taft encouaged bankers and business to invest money in Latin America with the aim of maintaining stability in that region.
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U-Boats
Definition
German submarines were called this.
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Trench Warfare
Definition
Opposing armies fighting from behind fixed fortifications.
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Communism
Definition
old system of government in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
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Central Powers
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Germany Austria- Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were known as the during WW1
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Axis
Definition
A group of countries in special alliance
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Kaiser
Definition
The German word for emperor.
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Allies
Definition
The alliance of England France, US and other countries during the WW1 fighting against the Central Powers.
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