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WORLD WAR 1 Vocab
Chapter 29 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| militarism | The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war |
| Triple Alliance | The alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | ruler of Germany |
| Triple Entente | The alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia |
| the Schlieffen Plan | large part of German army would go west to defeat France, and go back east to later fight Russia |
| Central Powers | Germany and Austria-Hungry at first, before Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria join. Also due to their location in the heart of Europe. |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Russia, and Japan later joins |
| Western Front | a deadlocked region in northern France |
| trench warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
| Eastern Front | stretch of Battlefield between along German and Russian border |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship, includes neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners, found in enemy water |
| 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 in short supply |
| propaganda | information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | one of the Big Four who was from the United States |
| Georges Clemenceau | one of the Big Four who was from France |
| David Lloyd George | one of the Big Four who was from Great Britain |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WW1 |
| self-determination | the freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live |
| Treaty of Versailles | the peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied Powers after WW1 |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after WW1 with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
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