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World War 1
word | definition |
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militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
Triple Alliance | an association of the city- states of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, which led to the formation of the Aztec Empire. |
Kaiser Wilhelm 2 | 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 out break 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 World War 1, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
Western Front | in World War 1, the region of the 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 with German- Russia border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austria, 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 imitating 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 course or to damage an opponent's cause |
armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
Woodrow Wilson | was one of the Big Four |
Georges Clemenceau | was one of the Big Four |
David Lloyd George | was one of the Big Four |
Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after Word 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 |