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The Great War
World War I
Term | Definition |
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Militarism | N. a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always preparing for war. |
Kaiser | N. a German emperor. |
Schlieffen Plan | N. Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. |
Central Power | N. in WWI, the nation of Germany and Austria- Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
Allies | N. in World War I, the nation of Great Britain, 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 WWI. |
Western Front | N. in WWI the region of northern France where the forces of the allies and the central power battled each other. |
Trench Warfare | N a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
Eastern Front | N. in WWI the region along the German- Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans,, Austrians, and Turks |
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | N. the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in any enemy's waters. |
Total War | N. a conflict in which the participating countries devoted all their resources to the war effort. |
Rationing | N. the limiting of the amount of goods people can buy often imposed by government during war time when good are in short supple. |
Propaganda | N. information or materials spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause |
Armistice | N. an agreement to stop fighting. |
Triple Allience | N. a military alliance between Germany, Austria Hungary and Italy |
Triple Entent | a military alliance between great Britan, and Russia in the years preceding WWI |
Woodrow Wilson | A political leader and educator of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. |
Georges Clemenceau | French statesman, journalist, and editor: premier 1906–09, 1917–20. |
David Lloyd George | British statesman: prime minister 1916–22. |
Fourteen Points | N. a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918. |
Self-determination | N. freedom to live as one chooses, or to act or decide without consulting another or others. |
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. |
League of Nations | N. an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that was created by the Treaty of Versailles (1919): dissolved April 1946. |