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03/19/2009

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the great war
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anoteher name for World War I, used by Europeans until the advent of World War II
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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German emperor in World War I; his aggressive foreign policy is often blamed for starting the war
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Triple Alliance
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military and political alliance formed beforew World War I to counter moves by potentioal rivals England, France, and Russia; consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
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Triple Entente
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military and political alliance formed before Wrold War I by England, France, and Russia; created to challenge moves made by the Triple Alliance
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the great powers
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the industrialized, colonizing nations of Europe before World War I; includes England, France, Gemany, Russia, and Italy; their rivalries led to the war
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Allied Forces
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name used by countries fighting the Central Powers; major members were Britain, France, Russia, and Italy; later in the war, the United States and Japan joined their cause
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Central Powers
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were the chief powers at war with the Allies
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Jingoism
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warlike nationalist sentiment spread to and among the middle and working classes in Europe before the war
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Dreadnought
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class of modern battleship launched by Britain before the war; triggered naval rivalry, especially with Germany
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Gavriel Princip
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Serbian nationalist, assassin of Archduke Ferdinand
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Archduke Ferdinand
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heir to Austro-Hungarian throne; his assassination precipitated the events that developed into World War I
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Sarajevo
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capital of the Bosnian province in Austria-Hungary; site of Ferdinand's assassination
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blank check
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promise of support from Germany to Austria-Hungary after Ferdinand's assassination; Austria-Hungary sought reprisals against Serbia; one of many events that cascaded into global war
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white dominions
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Britain's territories consisting of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand who sent soldiers into World War I
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Western Front
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war zone that ran from Belgium to Switzerland during World War i; featured trench warfare and massive casualties among the combatants, including Britain, France, Russia, and Belgium; later included the United States
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Marne River
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site near Paris, France, where Germany's early offensive was halted and thrown back; set the stage for four years of trench warfare on the Western Front
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Eastern Front
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war zone that ran form the Baltic to the vbalkans wher Germanh, Rusia, Austri-Hungary,m and the BValkan nations fought
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Tsar Nicholas II
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last emperor of Russia whose oorm military and political decistions led to this downfall and Russia's loss ing the war; he and kaiser whilhemls II madde many moves tahta led to the start of the war
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propaganda
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government-sponsonered mdiea coverage of the war designed to disseminate onesided versions of ":friendlya" and enemy condusct; used to guin up support for the war among it citizenry
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bolsheviks
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socials int Russia who rppomoted voerthrow of thetsar andx the stablishemnt of a social state; means "majority" in Russian
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new women
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term used to describe career-riented woment in western europe and the unted states in the 1920as; they sought increased socail and poltical rights
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jutland
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site of thwar's major seat battle between Germany and Britain off Denmark's coast; German seas prowess was limited after this enocuonter
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Gallipoli
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australian soldiers in support of the brithish were decimated by burkish an german soldiers at this batle near the dardanelles
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german east afric
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FIGHT OCCUREED IN AFRICA BETWEEN brithishled indiandand south african ftropps on one side, and germain trainded east african tropps o n the other; today's tanzania
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treaty of versailles
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wide-randign poswtar confreence that promoted much of wilsont' idealistica plan for peace but at the same time planded an punishe germanuy for startt ing the war; incloued creatof of a leagu eof nations an internations organizeatindestigne to prevent prucfher wra
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Woodrow Wilson
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American president who initially claimed neutrality in the war but later joined the Allied cause; his Fourteen Points and American fighting forces hastened an Allied victory; one of the Big Four at Versailles
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Georges Clemenceau
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French premier at Versailles peace conference who insisted on punishing Germany after the war; one of the Big Four
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David Lloyd George
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British prime minister at Versailles who attempted to mediate between Wilson's "peace without victory" stance and Clemenceau's, but only with partial success
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armistice
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all sides agreed to lay down their weapons without declaring victory; promoted by Woodrow Wilson to end the fighting; concept later rejected by France and Britain
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stab in the back
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myth promoted in Germany after the war that, on the brink of victory, socialists and Jewish politicians conspired to surrender to the Allies; used by Nazis as part of their drive to power in the 1920s
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self-determination
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Wilson called for national independence from colonial rule before Versailles; this encouraged colonial subjects in Asia and Africa until they discovered Wilson inteneded his rhetoric only for Europe
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Ho Chi Minh
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young nationalist from Vietnam seeking self-determination for his country at Versailles; was ignored, like many representatives from Asian and African colonies who were there
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Indian Congress Party
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Nationalist grup in India that called for independence from Britain; led by Western-educated Indian elites; led India in the early postcolonial era
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B. G. Tilak
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Nationalist leader who promoted a reactionary sort of Hinduism to gain independence for India; influence faded after Britain exiled him
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Morely-Minto Reforms
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in 1909, British colonial authorities expanded political opportunites for eductated Indians
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Mohandas Gandhi
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successful leader of the Indian nationalist movement who combined religious, social, and political know-how into a massive nonviolent campaign
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Satyagraha
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"truth fore", a term used by Gandhi to describe peaceful boycotts, strikes, noncooperation, and mass demonstrations to promote Indian independence
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Lord Cromer
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British High Commissioner of Egypt at the end of the 19tha nd early 20th centuries; implemented many, but apparently non enough, social and economic reforms
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Effendi
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prosperous Egyptian families who made up the middle class; leaders of the Egyptian nationalistm movement came largely from tis group
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Dinshawai
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Egyptian village where British violence came to represent the heavy-handed nature of colonial rule and united nationalists in their cause
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mandates
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the Treaty of Versailles established British or French control over territories formerly held by Germany and the Ottoman Empire; especailly important in regard to Arab areas after the war
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Ataturk (aka Mustafa Kemal)
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postwar leader of Turkey who launched sweeping reforms, including women's suffrage and a Latin-based alphabet
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Hussein, Sherif of Morocco
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convinced Arab leaders to support the French and British during the war because of their pledges of Arab independence
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Zionists
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supporters of Jewish nationalism, especailly a creation of a Jewish state in Palestine
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Lord Balfour
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British foreign secretary who pledged in a declaration the establishment of a Jeish homeland in Palestine, which encouraged Jewish nationalists and angered Arabs
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Pogroms
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violent assaults against Jewish communities, especially in Russia and Romania in the latter half of the 19th century
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Theodor Herzl
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prominent journalist who led the cause of Zionism in the late 19th century
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Alfred Dreyfus
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French officer and Jew who was falsely accursed of spying for Germany in the late 19th century; his mistreatment spurred Herzl and other Zionists to increase their call for a Jewish homeland
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World Zionist Organizaton
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formed by Herzl and other prominent European Jewish leaderst to promote JEwish migration to Palestine in advance of the creation of a Zionist state in Palestine
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Sa'd Zaghlul
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energetic leader of the nationalist-leaning Wafd Party in Egypt
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Liberal Constitutionalist Party; Labor Party
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rivals to Egypt's Wafd Party; once in control of their own government, these three parties did little to help the peasantry
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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led a military coup in Egypt in 1952; ruled until 1970; established himself as a major Arab force in the Middle East
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Lord Lugard
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influential British colonial administrator who predicted the rise of African nationalism
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Marcus Garvey and W. E. B. DuBois
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Americans who promoted African nationalism andunity
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Pan-Africanism
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movement begun in the 1920s to promote African nationalism and unity; did much to arouse anticolonial sentiment
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Negritude
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literary movement in France that argued precolonial African societies were superior in many ways to European colonial societies in Africa; writers included L. S. Senghor, Leon Damas, and Aime Cesaire
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National Congress of British West Africa
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regionalized version of the pan-African movement
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Armenian genocide
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assault carried out by mainly Turkish military forces against Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East
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Adolf Hitler
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Nazi leader of fascist Germany from 1933 to his suicide in 1945; created a strongly centralized state in Germany; eliminated all rivals; launched Germany on aggressive foreign policy leading to World War II; responsible for attempted genocide of European Jews
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League of Nations
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international diplomatic and peace organization created with the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I; one of the chief goals of President Woodrow Wilson of the United States in the peace negotiations; the United States was never a member
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Montagu-Chelmsford reforms
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increased the powers of Indian legislators at the all-India level and placed much of the provincial administration of India under local ministries controlled by legislative bodies with substantial numbers of elected Indians; passed in 1919
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Rowlatt Act
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placed restrictions on key Indian civil rights such as freedom of the press; acted to offfset the concessions granted under Montagu-Chelmsford reforms of 1919
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Hussein
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sherif of Mecca from 1908-1917; used British promise of independence to convince Arabs to support Britain against the Turnks in World War I; angered by Britans' failure to keep promise; died 1931
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Leon Pinsker
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(1821-1891) European Zionist who believed that Jewish assimilation into Christian European nations was impossible; argued for return to Middle Eastern Holy Land
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Wafd Party
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Egyptian nationalist party that emerged after an Egyptian delegations was refused a hearding at the Versailles treaty negotiations following World War I; led by Sa'd Zaghlul' negotiations eventually led to limited Egyptian independence beginning in 1922
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Leopold Sedar Senghor
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(1906-2001) one of the post-World War I writers of the negritude literary movement that urged pride in African values; president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980
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