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The Great War
World War I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Militarism | n. a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
| Triple Alliance | n. a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding WWI. |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | n. a German ruler who forced Bismarck to resign and was a proud and stubborn man. The army was his greatest pride. |
| Triple Entente | n. a military alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years preceding WWI |
| Schlieffen Plan | n. a plan in which the German army would race west, to defeat France, and then return to fight Russia in the East. |
| Central Powers | n. In WWI, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
| Allies | n. In WWI the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with other nations that fought on their side. |
| Western Front | n. In WWI, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the central powers battled each other. |
| Trench Warfare | n. a form of warfare in which opposing armies would fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
| Eastern Front | n. the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | n. the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in enemy's waters. |
| Total War | n. a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Rationing | n. the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply. |
| Propaganda | n. information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause. |
| Armistice | n. an agreement to stop fighting. |
| Woodrow Wilson | n. president of the United States during WWI. |
| Georges Clemenceau | n. leader of France. |
| David Lloyd George | n. leader of Great Britain. |
| Fourteen Points | n. a series of proposals made by Woodrow Wilson during World War I. |
| Self-determination | n. the freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live. |
| Treaty of Versailles | n. the peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after WWI. |
| League of Nations | n. an international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations. |