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Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 Wilhem ll | A German emperor. |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War 1. |
| Schelieffen 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 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 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 opponents cause. |
| Armistice | an agreement to stop fighting. |
| Woodrow Wilson | part of the big four: The United States |
| Georges Clemenceau | part of the big four: France |
| David Lloyd George | part of the big four: Great Britain |
| 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. |