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14.1-16.?
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9th Grade
10/26/2010

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entente
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nonbinding agreement to follow common policies
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Alsace and Lorraine
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a border province that france lost in the Franco-Prussian war
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untimatum
Definition
final set of demands
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zeppelines
Definition
large gas-filled balloons used to bomb
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convoy
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groups of merchant ships protected by war ships
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Dardanelles
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vital straight connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterrainian
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T.E. Lawrence
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supported Arab rebellion (sent by British gov)
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conscription
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"the draft", required all young men to be ready to go into military or other service
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contraband
Definition
military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies that may legally be confinscated by anyone who is billigerent
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Lusitania
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British liner off Ireland coast
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atrocities
Definition
horrible acts committed by innocent people
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Fourteen Points
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list of terms for resloving this and future wars
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armistice
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agreement to end fighting
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reparations
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payment for war damage
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collective security
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a system in which a group of nations act as one to preserve the peace of all
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mandates
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territories administered by western powers
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soviets
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concils of workers and soldiers
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Cheka
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secret police force
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commissars
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communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty during the Russian Revolution
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nationoalization
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gov. take over
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Good Neighbor Policy
Definition
policy in which American President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised that the USA would interfer less in Latin American affairs
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apartheid
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policy of segregation
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negritude movement
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movement in which writers and artists of African desent express pride in their African heritage
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Asia Minor
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the Turkish peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranian Sea
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Balfour Declaration
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statement issued by the British gov. in 1917 supporting the establishment of a homeland for Jews in Palistine
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Amritsar massacre
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British troups fired on an unarmed crowd of Indians
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ahimsa
Definition
nonviolence and reverence for all life
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Harlem Renaissance
Definition
African American cultural awakening
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dada
Definition
artistic movement in which artists rejected tradition and produced works that often shocked their viewers
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Kellogg-Briant Pact
Definition
international agreement, signed by almost every nation, to stop using war as a method of national policy
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New Deal
Definition
massive package of economic and social programs
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Benito Mussolini
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major fescist and leader
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totalitarian state
Definition
gov in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens lives
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Ruhr Valley
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coal-rich industrail region of Germany
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Gestapo
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secret police in Nazi Germany
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Nuremburg Laws
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laws approved by Nazi Party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from them
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