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Great War Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war |
| Triple Alliance | a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding WWI |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | a German emperor |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding WWI |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and move east to attack Russia |
| Central Powers | in WWI, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Allies | in WWI, Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Western Front | in WWI, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and Central Powers battled each other |
| trench warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
| Eastern Front | in WWI, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians ans Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. |
| unrestricted | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in the enemy's waters |
| submarine warfare | when Germany declared the area around the British Isles a war zone, in which all merchant ships, including those from neutral countries, would be attacked by the German navy |
| total war | a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort |
| propoganda | info or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the US during WWI |
| Georges Clemenceau | representative of France during WWI |
| David Lloyd George | representative of Italy and Great Britain during WWI |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which the US president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
| 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 WWI |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
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