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War Word 1
Vocab words
Question | Answer |
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Militarism | Policy of keeping a standing army always prepared for battle |
Triple Alliance | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
Kaiser Wilhelm ll | A German Emperor |
Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia |
Schlieffen plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of the war. In which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then attack russia |
Central Powers | The nations of Germany and Austria-Hungry, and other nations that fought o their side. |
Allies | Are the groups of nations that opposed the Axis power |
Western Front | The region north of France where the forces of the Allies and The Central Powers fought each other. |
Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing teams are battling each other form dug trenches |
Eastern Front | calong the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | The use of submarines to sink without warning ant ships found in enemy's water |
Total War | a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
Rationing | Limiting the amount of goods people can buy |
Propagranda | In formation or material to advance a cause or weaken the opponent's cause |
Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
Woodrow Wilson | U.S President |
Georges Clemenceau | A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in politics during the Third Republic |
David Lloyd George | a British Liberal politician and statesman. |
Fourteen Points | A series of proposal the U.S president Woodrow Wilson plan to achieve lasting peace after World World l |
Self- determination | The freedom of a people t decide a form of government they want to live in. |
Treaty of Versailles | an peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers |
League of Nations | An international association formed after World War l which was form to keep peace among nations. |