| A | B |
|---|
| Laissez-Faire Economics | Policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference. |
| Communism | Classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole. |
| Women's Suffrage | Right of women to vote. |
| Monopoly | Complete control of a product or business by one person. |
| Urban Renewal Project | Rebuilding of the poor areas of a city. |
| Putting Out System | Raw wool-distributed to peasants-spun wool into thread& then into cloth; sold to merchants. |
| Labor Unions | Worker's organizations. |
| Tenements | Multi-story buildings divided into crowded apartments. |
| Enclosure Movement | England: 1700's: process of taking over and fencing off public lands. |
| Capital | Money or wealth. |
| Otto Von Bismarck | Chancellor of Germany uniting Germans under Prussian rule. |
| "Blood and Iron Speech" | "...great questions of the day are not to be decided by speeches...but by blood and iron!" |
| Count Camillo Cavour | Prime Minister of Sardinia; wanted to end Austrian power in Italy. |
| King William I | Emperor of united German empire. |
| EMS Dispatch | Bismarck rewrote & released a telegram to the press which showed William had insulted the French ambassador. |
| King Victor Emmanuel II | King of Sardinia & Italy; wanted to join other states to his. |
| Realpolitik | Realistic politics based on the needs of the state. |
| Giuseppe Mazzini | Nationalist leader in exile who dreamed of united Italy. |
| Risorgimento | Italian nationalist movement. |
| Giuseppe Garibaldi | Nationalist, leader of volunteer army that fought to unify Italy. |
| Schlieffen Plan | Designed to avoid two-front war; German armies marched through Belgium toward France and on to attack Russia. |
| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | Was killed by a Serbnationalist hostile to Austria-Hungary. |
| Kaiser William II of Germany | Gave Austria full support for their stand against Serbia. |
| Woodrow Wilson | U.S. President entered WWI due to deaths of Americans on the Lusitania. |
| Lusitania | British liner torpedoed by the Germans killing 1200 passengers; 128 were Americans. |
| Trench Warfare | Warring armies dug into vast bunkers; planned attacks. |
| Propaganda | Spreading ideas to promote or damage a cause. |
| Zimmerman Note | British intercepted a German message to Mexico promising aid to regain lost land if Mexico aided Germany. |
| League of Nations | Group of nations acts as one to preserve peace of all. |
| Battle of Tannenburg | Russians suffered defeat in Germany causing them to retreat. |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germans assumed blame for the war: paid huge reparations, reduced military. |
| Wilson's Fourteen Points | End to secret treaties, freedom of seas, free trade, reduced arms. |
| Tangle of Alliances | Intended to create powerful combinations that no one dared attack. |
| U.S. Entry into World War I | Sinking of the Lusitania, & the Zimmerman Note. |
