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World History
Final 2
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History
9th Grade
06/15/2011

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Nationalism
Definition
people are very loyal to their country
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Imperialism
Definition
the idea of forcefully taking more land
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Militarism
Definition
increasing army size as much as possible
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Alliance Systems
Definition
having allies
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The Spark
Definition
Archduke Franz Ferdinand went to Bosnia, Bosnia wanted to become independent from Austria-Hungary so the Black Hand murdered him
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Schlieffen Plan
Definition
Germany's plan to fight both eastern and western fronts
-didn't work because of Trench Warfare
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Central Powers
Definition
Germany and Austria-Hungary because of locations
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Western Fronts
Definition
battlefields in northern France
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Trench Warfare
Definition
soldiers stayed in trenches for months at a time, dirty, gross, smelly, disease, etc
-very little land gain
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Eastern Front
Definition
part of Germany that borders Russia
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Russia
Definition
had a hard land to travel, had a huge military because of population size, but had less industry and economy so they ran out of money and supplies and couldn't support their army and dropped out of the war
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Germany
Definition
had a strong army, but had to split to fight on both fronts, were surrounded by enemies on all sides
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New Weapons
Definition
poison gas, machine guns, tanks
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USA
Definition
USA doesn't want to get involved, but they want to support their allies, so they declare neutrality but still trade with allies
-got involved in 1917 because Germany attacked British cruise ship (unrestricted sumbarine warfare) and found Zimmerman Note
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Zimmerman Note
Definition
Germany sent letter to Mexico saying they're going to attack America and if Mexico helps them they'll give them land
-note was intercepted by Britain and shown to America and Congress decides to enter war
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rationing
Definition
people could only buy limited amounts of things that were also needed for war
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propaganda
Definition
one-sided information used to persuade people to keep supporting the war
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total war
Definition
countries devoted all their resources to war
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Woodrow Wilson
Definition
delegate from USA gave speech called the 14 point speech-came up with 14 ways to prevent another world war
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Treaty of Versailles
Definition
all the allied leaders gad a meeting in Versailles to figure out how to fix the problems
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Allies
Definition
America, Britain, Japan, France, Italy
(JABIF)
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League of Nations
Definition
created by allies/5 superpowers
-set restrictions on Germany
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Lost Territory
Definition
Germany had to return all land they conquered
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Military Restrictions
Definition
-limited size of Germany's army
-not allowed to import or manufacture weapons
-not allowed to buy submarine or have an airforce
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War Guilt
Definition
Germany had to take all the blame for the war and pay allies 33 million dollars for repairs
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Legacy of War
Definition
-war cost $338 billion dollars
-European land and cities were destroyed
-8.5 million people died in WWI
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Albert Einstein
Definition
offered new ideas on time, energy, space, and matter
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Theory of Relativity
Definition
speed of light is constant but thins like time and space are not
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Sigmund Freud
Definition
revolutionary physician
-developed different theories about the human mind
-believed human behavior is mostly irrational
-published book called The Interpretation of Dreams
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Existentialism
Definition
philosophy that there is no universal meaning to life--each person gives their own meaning to life through choices and actions
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Friedrich Nietzche
Definition
said Western society concentrated too much on reason and not enough on emotion and instinct
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Surrealism
Definition
artist began breaking away from ideas of reason
-sought to link world of dreams with real world, tried to call on unconscious part of the mind, paintings had a dreamlike quality and depicted objects in unrealistic ways
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jazz
Definition
developed in America by African Americans in New Orleans, Memphis, and Chicago, and it spread quickly through Europe
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