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Chapter 26
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Triple Alliance | an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s |
| Triple Entente | an alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s |
| Franz Ferdinand | Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination by a Serb nationalist started World War 1 |
| Gavrilo Princip | young Serbian man who shot the archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie |
| neutral | a country that takes no side in a conflict |
| Central Powers | at world war, the powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy. |
| Allied Powers | at world war, the powers of Great Britain, Russia, and Serbia. |
| Western Front | the deadlock region in northern France were the worst part of the war took place. |
| trench warfare | fighting from trenches. |
| total war | tactic were the country realizes that to win the war they must use all of society's resources. |
| propaganda | information designed to influence people's opinion in order to encourage support of the war effort. |
| Battle of Verdun | battle at an important French fortress started by the Germans. This battle was meant to kill or injure as many French soldiers as possible |
| Gallipoli Campaign | failed attempt by the Allies in World War I to take control of the Dardanelles |
| genocide | the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| Bolsheviks | small Marxists group who led a revolution in order to overthrow the czar |
| Grigory Rasputin | a self-proclaimed holy man and healers whom many Russians viewed as corrupt and immoral. He was the adviser of the Romanovs. |
| Marxism-Leninism | the political and economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks, started by Vladimir Lenin, which looked to an uprising of the proletariat that would abolish private property and enforce social equality |
| Leon Trotsky | a top Bolshevik official that was sent by Lenin to negotiate for peace with the central powers. |
| New Economic Policy | a plan that permitted some capitalist activity. The plan was meant to encourage more food production |
| Woodrow Wilson | American president who didn't want to be involved in WWI. He established the 14 points as a basis to establish peace. |
| U-boats | German submarines |
| Zimmermann Note | a secret message from German diplomat Arthur Zimmerman to officials in Mexico in which he proposed the Mexicans to attack US and promised that they would gain back the lost land. |
| Fourteen Points | peace points established by Woodrow Wilson which aimed for the reduction of weapons and right for all people to chose their governments. |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty established by the allied powers |
| League of Nations | an international body of nations formed after World War I to prevent future wars. |
| mandates | territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after WWI |
| Balfour Declaration | a statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |
| armistice | a truce |
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