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World War 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| militarism | a policy of glorying 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 Williams II | In 1890, Germany's foreign policy changed dramatically. That year, Kaiser Williams II- who two years earlier had become ruler of Germany- forced Bismarck to resign |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War l |
| World War 1 event one | Austria-Hungary's Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his his wife are assassinated. World War 1 begins; Russia, France, and Britian against Germany and Austria- Hungary |
| World War 1 event two | 1915 Southwest Asia- Allies and Central Powers clash at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire |
| World War 1 event three | 1916 France - French suffer massive losses at the Battles of Verdun and Somme |
| World War 1 event four | 1917 U.S - U.S enters the war on the side of Allies |
| World War 1 event five | 1918 Russia - Russia withdraws from the war and signs peace treaty with Germany |
| World War 1 event six | 1918 Europe - The Allies defeat the Central Powers ending World War 1 |
| World War 1 event seven | 1919 France - The Allies and Germany sign the Treaty of Versailles |
| Schlieffen 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 | in World War 1, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Allies | in the World War 1, 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 opposed the axis powers in ww1 |
| 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 dug in the battlefield |
| Eastern Front | in ww1, the region along the german-russian border where russians and serbs battled the Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in 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 governments during wartime, when goods are short supply |
| propaganda | information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | son of a Presbyterian minister. he had been a history scholar, professor, and president of Princeton before becoming president. |
| Georges Clemceau | clemenceau, by contrast, had been a physician, journalist, and sometime playwright before becoming premier of France |
| David Lloyd George | british liberal politician and statesman |
| Fourteen points | |
| self-detemination | |
| Treaty of Versailles | |
| League of Nations |
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