Vocab
Systems of thought and belief
What are ideologies?
The hierarchy of Latin society from top to bottom
What is peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, mulattoes, and slaves/Native Americans?
Members of the Triple Alliance, two of whom would become the Central Powers
What were Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary?
A deadlock in which neither side is able to win
What is a stalemate?
What is total war?
People of African and European descent
What are mulattoes?
Overcame conservatives, swamps, and mountains to return from exile and help liberate Venezuela and Ecuador
Who was Simon Bolivar?
Members of the Triple Entente, who would become the Allies in the Great War
Who were France, Britain, and Russia?
The area between opposing sides' systems of trenches across which soldiers had a high chance of dying by machine gun, shells, or grenades
What was no-man's-land?
Spreading ideas to promote a cause or damage the opposition
What is propaganda?
The body of people allowed to vote as a result of granted suffrage
What is the electorate?
Led the liberation of Argentina and Chile and worked with Bolivar to help free Peru and Bolivia
Who was San Martin?
The glorification of the military, including romanticizing of war, increased spending, and an arms race
What was militarism?
An example of modern weapons introduced in World War I, major causes of the high casualties of trench warfare
What were rapid-fire machine guns and long-range artillery?
The reason Russia left the war?
What is revolution back home, and Lenin taking Russia out of the fighting?
Policy of one country's political, economic, or cultural domination over other lands and territories
What is Imperialism?
L'Ouverture
Who is the man who led Haiti's rebellion?
The three major causes of WWI, besides alliances and militarism
What were economics (threatened by Germany), imperialism (conflict over colonies) ,and nationalism (Germany, Russia and Pan-Slavism, empires vulnerable)?
Describe war on the Eastern Front (Germany vs Russia).
Two reasons the United States entered the war
What are Germany using submarines again, shared cultural history with Britain and France, and a message sent from Germany to Mexico asking for help in return for American land?
A government in which executive leaders are chosen by and responsible to the legislature and are also members of it
What is a parliamentary democracy?
The two priests who attempted to achieve reform in Mexico but were hindered by creoles
Who were Fathers Hidalgo and Morelos?
The sequence of events following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
What were Austria declaring war on Serbia, Germany declaring war on France and Russia, and Britain stepping in to defend Belgium?
The straight between the Black Sea and Mediterranean controlled by the Ottoman Turks
What are the Dardanelles?
The treaty which placed full blame on Germany, required them to pay reparations, and would ultimately help set up World War II down the road
What is the Treaty of Versailles?