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World War I
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Militarism | a policy of glorifying 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 Wilhelm II | 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 I |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Central Powers | in World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Allies | in World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France,, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side; also, th group of nations-including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States- that opposed the Axis Powers in WWII |
| Western Front | in World War I, 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 I, the region along the German-Russian border where the Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) 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 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 opponent's cause |
| Armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | president/leader of the United States |
| Georges Clemenceau | leader of France |
| David Lloyd George | leader of Great Britain |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outline a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I |
| 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 I |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
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