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19 Cards in this Set
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Nationalism
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Pride in one's nation.
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Militarism
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Building up the military forces to prepare for war.
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Entente
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An understanding between nations
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Properganda
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The spreading of ideas or beliefs.
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Autocracy
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A government in which one person has unlimited power.
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Convoy
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A group that travels with something,such as a ship to protect it.
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Front
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A region where warfare is taken place.
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Armistice
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an agreement to stop fighting. ( WWI november 12, 1918)
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Mobilization
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Gathering resources and preparing for war.
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Trench Warfare
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The type of fighting in WWI in which both sides dug trenches, which were protected by minds and barbed wires." No mans land" was in the middle.
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Socialist
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A person who believes thatn idustry should be publicly owned by the government than by private individuals.
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Pacifist
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Person opposed to the use of war or violence to settle disputes
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Espionage
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Another word for spy
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Sabotage
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Secret action by enemy agents or sympathizers to damage a nations war efforts
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Fourteen points
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Woodrow Wilsons plan of peace after WWI, which included the creation of the League of Nations
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League of Nation
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International organization formed after WWI as part of the Treaty of Versailles to promote world peace. The US Senate refused the US to join.
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Reparations
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Payment by the loosing country in the war to the winner for the damages caused by the war.
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Bolshevik Revolution
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Led by V. I. Lenin, caused Russia to withdrawl from WWI and ultimately become comunist
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Communism
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A system of government in which the state plans and controls the econy a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress towards a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
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