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| militarism | the glorificaton of armed strength that dominated the thinking of many European leaders before World War I. They believed that only force could solve problems. |
| mobilized | to have a readied army and other resources of combat, then other nations would also mobilize to protect themselves. |
| triple alliance | the alliance that Bismarck made with Germany, Austria, Hungry, and Italy and they all remained neutral |
| triple entante | a 1907 alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain |
| Pan Slavism | the nationalist movement that pressed for the political and cultural unity of all Savs under Russian leadership |
| Balkan powder keg | description of the international rivalries and instabilities focused on the Balkans before World War 1 |
| Ultimatum | where 1 party threatens harmful action to another if the other party rejects its proposals. |
| belligerents | warring nations |
| archduke francis ferdinand | killed on june 28th 1914 while visiting sarajevo |
| serbia | republic in eastern europe who were party of what was yugoslavia. nationalists here wanted to make their country the center of a huge slavic state. |
| bosnia | mountainious former yugoslav republic loacated seceded from yugoslavia in 1992. |
| sarajevo | capital of bosnia and herzegovina in eastern europe; where archduke francis ferdinand was assassinated and it was the setting of world war 1 |
| central powers | Germany, Austria Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman empire were in it and it owned alot of territory from the North Sea to the middle east. |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Russian and their partners became know as this. They had more soldiers and industriial potential then the centrals. |
| U Boats | The german made submarine that was made from the German world UNTERSEEBOOTEN meaning underrwater boats |
| propanganda | ideas, facts, and rumors spread deilberately to further ones cause or to damage an opposing cause. |
| war of attrition | a slow wearing down process in which each side tried to outlast the other one such as in Northeaster France. |
| contraband | war matterials supplied by a neutral to a beliigerent nation |
| atrocities | brutal crimes of war often said to have been committed against defenseless normal civilians. |
| woodrow wilson | was the prez who warned germany that them sinking british stuff and killing americans would not be tolerated. |
| aruthur zimmerman | german foreign minister who sent a secret telegram to the german ambassador in mexico and it told him to draw mexico into the war on Germanys side. |
| mensheviks | some members of the petrogrd soviet were called thsi |
| bolsheviks | killed nicholas II and his family. radical socialists. |
| v.i. lenin | leader of the bolsheviks. his birthname twas vladimir illyrich ulyanov in 1970 but assumed the name lennon. studied law. he was a revolutionary. |
| communists | bolsheviks renamed. economic and political system in which the gov't wins all the means of production and control economic planning. |
