Vocab 1.0
It's when nations join together for a common cause.
What is an alliance?
It's when something is boring and repetitive.
What is monotonous?
German U-boats torpedoed this passenger ship.
What was the Lusitania?
He narrates the novel.
Who is Paul Baumer?
She has cancer.
Who is Paul's mother?
It's when people love and are proud of their country.
What is patriotism?
It's when soldiers are being hit with a barrage of artillery shells.
What is bombardment?
This is the name of the man who was assassinated.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
He was the first of the characters in the novel to die.
Who was Kemmerich?
She fetched whortleberry jam and potato cakes for Paul.
Who is Erna?
It's when people believe that their country is better than all others.
What is nationalism?
It's an adjective describing people who no longer care about anything.
What is indifferent?
This intense pride in one's country is often one cause of wars.
What is nationalism?
He is the 40-year-old leader of the squad.
Who is Katczinsky?
He wanted Paul to stay in his uniform while he was on leave.
Who was his father?
It's an adjective that describes when people don't take sides on an issue.
What is neutral?
It's another word for the military draft.
This is the belief that a country should have a strong military and use it to achieve its goals.
What is militarism?
He was the most distraught of all the soldiers when the horses were wounded.
Who is Detering?
The soldiers knew him prior to the war and he ended up being conscripted into the German army; Paul saw him being humiliated at a training camp.
Who was Kantorek?
It's when a country has a policy of not becoming involved with the actions of other countries.
What is nonintervention?
It's when a country has a policy of keeping to itself.
What is isolationism?
This is the name of the telegram that was intercepted by spies that revealed that Germany was colluding with Mexico to form an alliance against the United States.
What was the Zimmerman Telegram?
He's the skinny one who has a huge appetite.
Who was Tjaden?
Who was the angry major?