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War&REvolution
Ch 16 flash cards- project
Question | Answer |
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planned economies | ystems directed by government agencies |
conscription | a military draft |
mobilization | the process of assembling troops and supplies making them ready for war |
propaganda | ideas spread to influence public opinion fo or aginsta cause |
trench warfare | fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire |
war of attrition | war based on wearing the other side down by constant ttacks andheavy losses |
total war | comlete mobilization of resources and people |
soviets | councils made up of representatives from the workers and soldiers |
war communism | government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants and the centralization of state administration under communist control |
armistice | truce or agreement to end fighting |
reparations | payments to cover the costs of war |
mandates | a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the league of nations |