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Chapter 29 Vocab
22 vocabulary words of The Great War
Term | Definition |
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militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
Triple Alliance | an association of the city states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire. |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | German emperor/leader during World War I |
Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. |
Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and the move east to attack Russia. |
Central Powers | In World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
Allies | In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the nations that fought on their side; also, the group of nations-including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States-that opposed the Axis Powers. |
Western Front | In World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. |
trench warfare | A form of warfare om which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
Eastern Front | In World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. |
unrestricted submarine warfare | The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found an enemy's waters. |
total war | A conflict in which the participation countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
rationing | The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often impose by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply. |
propaganda | Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause. |
armistice | An agreement to stop fighting. |
Woodrow Wilson | Untied States president during World War I. |
Georges Clemenceau | French leader during World War I |
David Lloyd George | Great Britain leader during World War I. |
Fourteen Points | a series of proposal in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. |
self-determination | The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live. |
Treaty of Versailles | The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War . |
League of Nations | An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations. |