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WW1 or World war 1
Terms
| Terms | definition |
|---|---|
| Triple Alliance | United Germany, Austria-Hungary,and Itsly |
| Triple Entente | France, Great Britain |
| Franz Ferdinand | visited Bosnian city |
| Gavrilo Princip | opened fire with his pistol, killing the archduke |
| neutral | takes no side |
| Central Powers | Made up one side |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain,France,Russia,and Servia |
| Western Front | The deadlocked region in northern France |
| trench warfare | fighting from trenches |
| total war | use of all resources of training |
| propaganda | information designed to people's opinions |
| Battle of Verdun | kill or injure as many French |
| Gallipoli Campaigne | was a failure |
| Genocide | the deliberate destruction of a racial, or cultural group |
| Bolsheviks | A small Marxist group |
| Grigory Rasputin | a self proclaimed holy man and healer whom many Russians viewed as corrupt and immoral |
| Marxism-Leninism | after Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin |
| New Economic Policy | a plan that permitted some capitalist activity |
| U-boats | submarines |
| Zimmermann Note | was a secert message from German diplot Arthur Zimmermann |
| Woodrow Wilson | who did not want to become involved in the huge conflict on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean |
| armistice | truce |
| Fourteen points | The plan for piece |
| Treaty of Versailles | Allies finally compromised |
| League of Nations | a organization |
| mandates | territories |
| Balfour Declaration | a Jewish state in Palestine, the ancient Jewish homeland |