GLOSSARY GLOSSARY
KEY TERMS DEFINITIONS: |
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TOTAL WAR |
war activities which involved mass civilian populations in a war effort that required rationing, employing of both men and women in war plants, and exciting society with contorted propaganda. |
PAN-SLAVISM |
a movement which strove to increase nationalism among all the Slaic peoples; it's goal was for the SErbs, Croats, Slovenes, and Bosnians to unite and form a single political existence. |
NATIONALISM |
particular attachment to a nation's culture and/or interests. |
IMPERIALISM |
comes from the Roman word imperium meaning the "right to command"; movement in which superior countires felt that they were given the right or "duty" to dominate and control a weaker country. |
"BLANK CHECK" |
specifically the promise that the German Kaiser Wilheim made with Austria by promising to back any action that Austria might take in order to defnd itself from Serbia. |
WAR OF ATTRITION |
the act of lowering the enemy's morale and resouces during the war. |
UNRESTRICTED SUBMARINE WARFARE |
the sinking of foreign ships, no matter where the ships are located, by a country who believed such ships to pose as a threat to the country. |
ARMISTICE |
a truce; a temporary cessation of combat by mutual consent. |
INDEMNITITES |
security against loss or damage; compensation for damage or loss. |
APPEASEMENT |
the willingness to cave in and follow through on the demands of aggressive dictatorships. |
ISOLATIONISM |
a policy a country takes in order to keep itself from getting involved in the affairs of other countries that may or may not effect the country itself. |
FASCISM |
a combination of socialism and nationalism; comes from the Roman word fasces meaning symbols of power. |
LEBENSRAUM |
living space; related to the belief held by Adolf Hitler that Germans were the master race destined to rule or exterminate inferior races. |
GESTAPO |
secret police of the Secret Service -- the main element which enforced Nazi ideals. |
AUTARCHY |
economic self-sufficiency. |
HOLOCAUST |
the systematic mass murder of the Jewish race which eventually spread to the rest of Europe. |
SANCTIONS |
an embargo on trade either in arms or in raw matierials. |
ANSCHLUSS: |
the forced union of Austria and Germany. |
NON AGGRESSION PACT |
the settlement between two countries in which both agree to not attack each other. |
