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Vocab Words
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Militarism | The policy of glorifying military and keeping an army prepared for war |
| Triple Alliance | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and /ital in the years preceding World War I |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | A German emperor |
| Triple Entente | A military alliance with Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I |
| Schlieffen Plan | 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 | In World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with other nations that fought on their sides |
| Allies | In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations-including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United State-that opposed the Axis Powers in World War II |
| Western Front | In World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Centrals Powers battled each other |
| Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
| Easter Front | In World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship(including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in enemy waters |
| Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Rationing | The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are short in supply |
| Propaganda | Info or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause |
| Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | Thomas Woodrow Wilson, known as Woodrow Wilson, was 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 |
| Fourteen Points | The series of proposals in which US president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
| Self-determination | The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live in |
| Treaty of Versailles | The peace treaty signed by Germany and the allied powers after WWI |
| League of Nations | An international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
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Kevin Tenorio
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