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Ch29:The Great War
World History: World War 1 Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is militarism? | The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war. |
| What does Triple Alliance mean? | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War 1. |
| Who was Kaiser Wilhelm 2? | A German emperor (from the Roman title Caesar). |
| Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War 1. |
| Schileffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War 1, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. |
| Central Powers | World War 1, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
| Allies | World War 1, nations Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with 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 World War 2. |
| Western Front | World War 1, 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 | World War 1, 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 the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Rationing | The limiting of a fixed allowance of provisions or food, especially for soldiers or sailors or for civilians during a shortage: a daily ration of meat and bread. |
| Propaganda | Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
| Armistice | A temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement of the warring parties; truce: World War I ended with the armistice of 1918. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was the 28th President of the United States, serving two terms from 1913-1919. |
| Georges Clemenceau | French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929). |
| David Lloyd George | British Liberal politician and statesman. |
| Fourteen Points | Peace negotiations after World War I. |
| Self Determination | Creation of national governmental institutions by a group of people who view themselves as a distinct nation. |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace treaties at the end of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
| League of Nations | An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles. |
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