| A | B |
|---|
| entente | a nonbinding agreement to follow common policies |
| militarism | glorification of the military, also helped to feed the arms race |
| ultimatum | final set of demands |
| mobilize | prepare its military forces for war |
| neutrality | a policy of supporting neither side in a war |
| stalemate | a deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |
| zeppelins | large gas-filled balloons, to bomb the English coast |
| U-boats | German word for submarine |
| convoys | groups of merchant ships protected by warships |
| Dardanelles | a vital strait connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean |
| T.E. Lawrence | later known as Lawrence of Arabia |
| total war | war required the channeling of a nation's entire resources into the war effort |
| conscription | or "the draft," which required all young men to be ready for military or other service |
| contraband | military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies, but not items such as food and clothing |
| Lusitania | a British liner |
| propaganda | the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
| atrocities | horrible acts committed against innocent people |
| Fourteen Points | a list of terms for resolving this and future wars |
| self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| armistice | agreement to end fighting, with the Allies |
| pandemic | the spread of a disease across a large area |
| reparations | payments for war damage |
| radicals | people who wanted to make extreme changes, dreamed of building a new social order from the chaos |
| collective security | a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all |
| mandates | territories administered by Western powers |
| proletariat | the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners |
| Cheka | a secret police force much like the tsar's |
| commissars | communist party officials assigned to mthe army to teach pary principles and ensure party loyalty |
