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World War 1 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Militarism | n. a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
| Triple Alliance | n. 1. an association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of Aztec Empire 2. a military alliance between Germany< Austria- Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Leader of Germany during World War I |
| Triple Entente | n. a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. |
| Schlieffen Plan | n. Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. |
| Central Powers | n. in World War I, the nation of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
| Allies | n. in World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, And Russia, along with the other nations that faught on their side; also, the group of nations -- including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States-- that opposed the axis powers in w |
| Western Front | n. in World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers Battled each other. |
| trench warfare | n. a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the batlefield |
| Eastern Front | n. in World War I, the region along the German-Russian border |
| Unrestricted submarine warfare | n. the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship |
| Total war | n. a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Rationing | n. the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy often imposed by governments during wartime, when good are in short supply |
| Propaganda | n. information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent cause. |
| Armistice | n. an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | big four of the United states |
| Georges Clemenceau | big four of the France |
| David Lloyd George | big four of great britian |
| Fourteen Points | series of proposals |
| Self-determination | the guiding idea |
| treaty of versailles | between Germany and the Allied powers was reached |
| League of nations | adopting Wilson fourteenth point |