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Chapter 26 terms nb
History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Triple Alliance | An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800's |
| Triple Entente | An alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800's |
| Franz Ferdinand | Royal prince of Hungary |
| Gavrilo Princip | assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| neutral | In a war not aiding either side |
| Central powers | The alliance between Germany,Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during World War I |
| Allied powers | The alliance formed between Britain,France, and Russia during World War I |
| Western Front | During World War I , the deadlocked region in northern France where German and Allied armies faced off |
| Trench warfare | A form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches or deep ditches to seek protection from enemy fire . |
| total war | A war that requires the use of all a society's resources |
| propaganda | information such as posters and pamphlets created by governments in order to influence public opinion |
| Battle of Verdun | The longest battle of WWI it ended in the stalemate with both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of causalities |
| Gallipoli Campaign | Failed attempt by the Allies in WWI to take control of the Dardanelles |
| genocide | the killing of an entire people |
| Bolsheviks | Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat |
| Grigory Rasputin | Russian Orthodox Christian |
| Marxism-Leninism | The political and economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks by Vladimir Lenin |
| Leon Trotsky | Russian Marxist revolutionary |
| New Economic Policy | Lenin's plan started in 1921, to allow limited capitalism especially among farmers in order to restore the Soviet economy |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921 |
| U-boats | Submarines used by Germans in WWI and WWII |
| Zimmermann Note | A telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into WWI |
| armistice | An agreement to cease fighting, usually in a war |
| Fourteen Points | president Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post-WWI Europe and for avoiding future wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty ending WWI required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations |
| League of Nations | An international body of nations formed after WWI to prevent future wars |
| mandates | territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the league of Nations gave to other European Powers |
| Balfour Declaration | A statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine . |
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