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History Vocab.
World War 1
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History
9th Grade
05/16/2013

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Armistice
Definition
a decision to stop fighting at least for a while
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Woodrow Wilson
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the 28th President of the U.S. from 1913-1921. He led the United States during World War 1 and helped found the League of Nations
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Herbert Hoover
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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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Nationalism
Definition
the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
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Fourteen Points
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President Woodrow Wilson's goals for peace after World War 1
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Appeasement
Definition
to preserve peace by meeting demands of an aggressor
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Franz Ferdinand
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the Archduke of Austria who was assassinated, thus beginning World War 1
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Imperialism
Definition
a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
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Dollar Diplomacy
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under the progressive President William Howard Taft. Taft encouraged bankers and businesses to invest money in Latin America with the aim of maintaining stability in that region
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Dictator
Definition
a person behaves in a tyrannical manner
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U-boats
Definition
German submarines were called this
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Trench Warfare
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opposing armies fighting from behind fixed fortifications
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Zimmerman Telegram
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a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico proposing a German alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the USA entered WWI
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Communism
Definition
old system of government in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
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Central Powers
Definition
Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire were known as this during WWI
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Treaty of Versailles
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ended WWI, required Germany to pay billions of dollars, established the League of Nations, the U.S. never signed it
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Axis
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a group of countries in a special alliance
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Kaiser
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the German word for emperor
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World War 1
Definition
This war encompassed most of the industrialized nations of the world from 1914-1918
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Allies
Definition
the alliance of England, France, United States and other countries during World War I fighting against the Central Powers
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