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WWI "Section 2"
Mr. Talley
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| In 1914 Eruope was divided into two rival camps. | 1. Triple Entente and 2. Triple Alliance |
| Triple Entente | Great Britain, France, and Russia |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Central Powers | Germany and Austria-Hungary because of their location in the heart of Europe; Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire would later join |
| Allied Powers (Allies) | Great Britain, France, and Russia; Japan later joined, as well as, Italy |
| Italians | joined the other side after accusing their former partners of unjustly starting the war |
| Bloody Stalemate | deadlock along the battlefields of France; nearly 500 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border |
| Western Front | Deadlocked region in northern France |
| Schieffen Plan | Germany's battle strategy for attacking and defeating France in the west and then rushing east to fight Russia |
| General Alfred Graf von Schlieffen | designed the Schlieffen Plan |
| Trench Warfare | miles of dug parallel trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire |
| Weapons of War | machine guns, poison gas, armored tanks, larger artillery |
| Verdun | where German attack against the French/more than 300,000 men died from each side |
| Eastern Front | area was a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border |
| The Russian Army | suffered many battlefield losses, but the country's enormous population help to rebuild its ranks |
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