A nonbinding agreement to follow common policies
Entente
The glorification of the military
Militarism
The French’s defeat in the Fraco-Prussian War and yearned to recover the parts of the boarder provinces of these two areas that had been taken in the war.
Alsace and Lorraine
The finial set of demands
Ultimatum
Preparing its military forces for war
Mobilize
Is a policy of supporting neither side in or during a war
Neutrality
A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other
Stalemate
Large gas-filled balloons
Zeppelin
Nicknamed this from the German word for submarine
U-Boat
Groups of merchant ships protected by warships
Convoy
To achieve this, governments began to take a stronger role in directing the economic and cultural lives of their people
Total war
The “draft”
Conscription
Military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies
Contraband
A British ship that torpedoed off the coast of Ireland, killing almost 1,200 passengers
Lusitania
The spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause
Propaganda
Horrible acts committed against innocent people
Atrocity
A list of his terms for resolving both this war and future wars.
Fourteen points
The rights of people to choose their own form of government
Self-determinism
Agreement to end fighting
Armistice
The spread of diseases across a large area
Pandemic
Payments for war damage
Reparation
People who wanted to make extreme changes
Radical
A system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all
Collective security
Territories administered by western powers
Mandates
