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WW1 Vocab word
This contain all the vocab word from chapter 29 and 30
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Militarism | the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military. |
| Triple Alliance | A secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed on 20 May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Last German emperor |
| Triple Entente | Alliance between Russia, France and Britain. |
| Schlieffen Plan | The operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilize her forces near the German border. |
| Central Powers | Germany and its allies (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire) in World War I. |
| Allies | The Allies included Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States. |
| Western Front | The name applied to the fighting zone in France and Flanders, where the British, French, Belgian and the American armies faced that of Germany. |
| Trench Warfare | A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other. |
| Eastern Front | The Eastern Front of World War II was a theater of conflict between the European Axis powers and co-belligerent Finland against the Soviet Union, Poland and other allies, |
| Unrestricted Submarine warfare | A type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning |
| Total war | Every resource in the country is contributed to war. |
| Rationing | allow each person to have only a fixed amount |
| Propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
| Armistice | A truce |
| Woodrow Wilson | Served as 28th US president |
| Georges Clemenceau | Led France in first world war |
| David Floyd George | Led Great Britain |
| Fourteen Points | Outline plan for achieving a just and lasting peace. |
| Self-Determination | Allowing people to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live. |
| Treaty of Versailles | It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers |
| League of Nations | International association whose goal was to keep peace among nations. |