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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the alliance that united germany,austria hungary,and italy. | triple alliance |
| leaders hoped that these alliances would help keep the peace. | triple entente |
| The two countries were neutrals while their neighbors were at war. | neutral |
| germany and austria-hungary made up one side known as the ______ | central powers |
| great britain,france,russia,and serbia were known as the ____. | allied powers |
| the deadlocked region in northern france became known as the ______. | western front |
| Warfare marked by slow wearing down of the opposing forces and piecemeal gains at heavy cost. | trench warfare |
| governments began to take stronger control of ttheir citizens lives | total war |
| Official government communications to the public that are designed to influence opinion. The information may be true or false, but it is always carefully selected for its political effect. | propaganda |
| this is meant solely to kill or injure as many french soldiers as possilbe. | battle of verdun |
| this type of thing was a failure | gallipoli campaign |
| The deliberate destruction of an entire race or nation. | genocide |
| The radicals in the Russian Revolution, who were led by Lenin and who favored revolution rather than gradual democratic change. | bolsheviks |
| The doctrines of Marxism as applied by Lenin, a founder of the Soviet Union, to the building of Marxist nations. | marxism-leninism |
| a program in effect from 1921 to 1928, reviving the wage system and private ownership of some factories and businesses, and abandoning grain requisitions. | New Economic Policy |
| a German submarine. | u-boats |
| secret telegram sent on Jan. 16, 1917, by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann to Count Johann von Bernstorff, the German ambassador to stats | zimmermann note |
| a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce: World War I ended with the armistice of 1918. | armistice |
| a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918. | fourteen points |
| the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | treaty of versailles |
| an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946. | league of nations |
| a command or authorization to act in a particular way on a public issue given by the electorate to its representative: The president had a clear mandate to end the war. | mandates |
| a statement, issued by the British government on November 2, 1917, favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews but without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine. | balfour declaration |
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