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WW1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Triple Alliance | 1. an association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlancopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire. 2. a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War 1. |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War 1 |
| Central Powers | in World War 1, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Allies | i World War 1, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side; also, the group of nations-including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States-that opposed the Axis Powers in WW2 |
| trench warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
| total war | a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WW1 |
| Treaty of Versailles | the peace treaty signed |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WW1 |
| Treaty of Versailles | the peace treaty signed by Germany ad the Allied powers after WW1 |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after WW1 with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
| militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
| Kaiser | a German emperor (from the Roman title Caesar) |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WW1, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Western Front | in WW1 the religion of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battle each other |
| Eastern Front | in WW1, the religion along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled German, Austrians, and Turks |
| unrestricted submarine war | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship ( including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters. |
| rationing | the limited of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply. |
| propaganda | information or materials spread to advance a cause or damage an opponents cause. |
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