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Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
Triple Alliance | An association of the city state of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan which led to the formation of the Aztec empire. |
Kaiser Wilhelm ll | A German emperor |
triple entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding the WW1 |
Schlieffen Plan | A Germany military plan at the outbreak of world war one According to which German troops would rapidly defeat france then move east to attack russia |
central powers | In WW1 the nations of Germany and Austria Hungary along with the other nations fought along side. |
Allies | The nations of the great Britain France and Russia along with the other nations fought on their side. |
Western Front | The region of northern France where the forces of the allies and the central powers battled each other. |
Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
Eastern fort | The region along the German Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans Austria and turks. |
Unrestricted submarine | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in an enemy's waters. |
total war | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their reasourses to the war effort. |
rationing | each person gets a good small amount since they´er were a few supplies. |
propaganda | to promote or argue a cause |
Armistice | a truce for not to attack a certain amount of time. |
Woodrow Wilson | an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. |
George Clemenceau | Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who led the nation in the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in politics during the Third Republic |
David Lloyd George | David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman. Wikipedia |
Fourteen points | A series of proposal in which U.S president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after war |
Self determination | The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they want to live in |
Treaty of Versailles | was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |
League of Nations | an international association formed after the WW1 with the goal of keeping peace among nations |