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World War 1
World War 1 Terms and Definitions
Question | Answer |
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Militarism | a placing of high value on acquiring material posessions |
Triple Aliance | a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | a German emperor |
Triple Entente | a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War 1 |
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-Hungry, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
Allies | in World War 1, the nations of Great Britain, France, 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 World War 2 |
Western Front | in 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 | in 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 counties 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 in 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 | president of the United States |
Georges Clemenceau | French leader |
David Lloyd George | Great Britain's leader |
Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War 1 |
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 1 |
League of Nations | an international association formed after World War 1 with the goal of keeping peace among nations |