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The Great War
Chapter 29: The Great War terms and definitions
Question | Answer |
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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 World War I. |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | Ruler of Germany who was in relation to the leaders of Britain and Russia who engaged in war with them. |
Triple Entente | a military alliance between 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 the other nations that fought on their side. |
Allies | in WWI, the nations of Great Britain, France, 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 apposed 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 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 World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. |
Woodrow Wilson | American representative in the Big Four whom devised a proposal to achieve long lasting peace after The Great War. |
Georges Clemenceau | French representative in the Big Four whom devised a proposal to achieve long lasting peace after The Great War. |
David Lloyd George | British representative in the Big Four whom devised a proposal to achieve long lasting peace after The Great War. |
Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. |
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 World War I. |
League of Nations | an international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations. |
unrestricted submarine warfare | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's 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 a governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply. |
propaganda | information of material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause |
armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |