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WWI
WWI Vocabulary
Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war. |
Triple Alliance | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and and Italy in the years preceding World War I. |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | Became ruler of Germany and forced Bismarck to resign. |
Triple Entente | A military between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. |
Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI. |
Central Powers | The nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
Allies | The nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that on their side. |
Western Front | The region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battle each other. |
Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
Eastern Front | The region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battles Germans, Australians, and Turks. |
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in the enemy's waters. |
Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
Rationing | The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy, often imposed by governments during wartime. |
Propaganda | Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause. |
Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting. |
Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States. |
Georges Clemenceau | President of France. |
David Lloyd George | President of Great Britain. |
Fourteen Points | A series of proposals in which U.S president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI. |
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 WWI. |
League of Nations | An international associated formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations. |