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World War 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Militarism | The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war |
| Triple Alliance | An association of the city-states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | the ruler of Germany who forced Bismark to resign |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years proceeding WW1 |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan in WW1 in which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Central Powers | in WW1, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
| Allies | in WW1, the nation of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations fought on their side |
| Western Front | in WW1, 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 done in the battlefield |
| Eastern Front | in WW1, 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 found in an enemy's waters. |
| Total War | a conflict in which all the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Rationing | the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy |
| Propaganda | one sided information designed to persuade |
| Armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the U.S. and part of the group "The Big Four" |
| Georges Clemenceau | Member of the group "The Big Four" from France |
| David Lloyd George | Member of the group "The Big Four" from the 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-Determanation | the freedom of the people to decide under what form of government they wish to live |
| Treaty of Versailles | the peace treaty signed by Germany and the outlined powers after World War 1 |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after WW1 with the goal of keeping peace among nations. |
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