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Chapter 26 Vocab
Key Terms and People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s | Triple Alliance |
| an alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s | Triple Entente |
| Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination by a Serb nationalist started ww1 | Franz Ferdinand |
| Serbian nationalist; he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, which started ww1 | Gavrilo Princip |
| in a war, not aiding either side | neutral |
| The alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire during world war 1 | Central Powers |
| the alliance formed between Great Britain, France, and Russia during world war 1 | Allied Powers |
| during ww1, the deadlocked region in northern France where German and allied Armies faced of | Western Front |
| a form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions | Trench Warfare |
| a war that requires the use of all a society's resources | Total War |
| information such as poster and pamphlets created by governments in order to influence public opinion | Propaganda |
| the longest battle of ww1; it ended in stalemate, with both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties | Battle of Verdun |
| Failed attempt by the allies to take control of the Dardanelles | Gallipoli Campaign |
| the killing of an entire people | genocide |
| Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat | Bolsheviks |
| A self proclaimed Russian holy man and prominent figure at the court of Czar Nicholas II. He was viewed as corrupt, and support for czarist Russia deteriorated because of him | Grigory Rasputin |
| The political and economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks, expounded by Vladimir Lenin, which looked to an uprising of the proletariat that would abolish private property and enforce social equality | Marxism-Leninism |
| Russian Communist revolutionary; he negotiated peace between Russia and the Central powers to end Russian involvement in ww1 | Leon Trotsky |
| Lenin's plan, started in 1921, to allow limited capitalism, especially among farmers, in order to restore the soviet economy | New Economic Policy |
| Twenty-eighth president of the U.S.; he proposed the League of Nations after ww1 as a part of his fourteen points | Woodrow Wilson |
| Submarines used by Germans in world wars 1 and 2 | U-boats |
| a telegram sent to a German Official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into world war 1 | Zimmermann Note |
| an agreement to cease fighting | armistice |
| Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post-World war 1 Europe and for avoiding future wars | Fourteen points |
| Treaty ending ww1; required Germany to pay a huge fine and it established the League of Nations | Treaty of Versailles |
| an international body of nations formed after WW1 to prevent future wars | League of Nations |
| Territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European Powers to rule after World war 1 | mandates |
| a statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing Jewish homeland in Palestine | Balfour Declaration |
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