WC WWI Intro Vocab Quiz

1. A policy of aggressive military preparedness; the opinions or actions of people who believe that a country should use military methods, forces, etc., to gain power and to achieve its goals

• militarism

• imperialism

• alliance system

• nationalism

2. A group of nations and/or people that worked together to attack an enemy nation.

• militarism

• imperialism

• alliance system

• nationalism

• system of segraegaton

3. A policy or practice by which a country increases its power by gaining control over other areas of the world

• militarism

• imperialism

• alliance system

• nationalism

4. A sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those of other nations

• militarism

• imperialism

• alliance system

• nationalism

Ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing/opositions cause

• entente

• front

• propaganda

• mobilization

• accurate information

The extreme forward area of a battlefield, where troops are directly engaged in combat with opposing forces/ or the line of contact between opposing forces, such as the German and French armies

• entente

• front

• propaganda

• mobilization

• noncombat area

Organization of a nation's armed forces for active military service in time of war or other national emergency or the process of preparing the military and civilian resources for war

• entente

• front

• propaganda

• mobilization

• none of these answers

An agreement to stop fighting a war

• armistice

• trench warfare

• U-boats

• The Fourteen Points

• war reparations

Statement made in 1918 by US President Woodrow Wilson proposed guidelines for a lasting peace after the war, including open diplomacy, freedom of the seas, free trade, reduction of armaments, and the right of self-determination for nations, with the ultimate goal of establishing a League of Nations to prevent future conflicts

• armistice

• trench warfare

• Fourteen Points

• reparations

• Treaty of the war

Most common throughout the Western Front, this type of land combat with occupied fighting lines consisting largely of lines in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy’s small arms fire and sheltered from artillery

• armistice

• trench warfare

• Fourteen Points

• reparations

• submarine warfare