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World History
Modern World History - Ch. 13 - The Great War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war. | militarism |
| A 1879 alliance between Germany and Austri-Hungary. Italy joined three years later. | Triple Alliance |
| A 1907 military alliance between Great Britian, France, and Russia. | Triple Entente |
| He became leader of Germany in 1888 and forced German Chancellor Otto Von Bismark to resign, led Germany in World War I. | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| The name of the alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914. | Central Powers |
| The name of the alliance between Great Britian, France, and Russia in 1914. | Allied Powers or Allies |
| The deadlocked battlefield region in northern France in World War I. | The Western Front |
| Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. | Schlieffen Plan |
| A form of warfare in which oppossing armies fight each other from trenches dug into the battlefield. | trench warfare |
| The region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks in World War I. | The Eastern Front |
| Weapon introduced by the Germans but used bn both sides. It caused blindness or severe blisters, and death by chocking. | poison gas |
| A weapon which was much improved by WWI. It could wipe out waves of attackers making it difficult to advance. | machine gun |
| A weapon introduced by the British in 1916 at the Battle of Somme. Traveled on chain tracks and had armour. | tank |
| Weapon improved by the Germans as an effective warship. | submarine |
| A new invention used as a weapon in WWI. 850 were used in the beginning of the war and over 10,000 were used by the end. | airplane |
| German policy in which their submarines would sink without warning any ship in the waters around Great Britain. | unrestricted submarine warfare |
| All of the resources of a country are dedicated to a war effort. | total war |
| The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy - often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply. | rationing |
| Information or material spred to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause. | propoganda |
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