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WWI
Vocab and Definition
| 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 WWI |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | ruler of Germany during WWI |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding WWI |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Central Powers | in WWI, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with other nations that fought on their side |
| Allies | in WWI, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with other nations that fought on their side |
| Western Front | in WWI, the region of northern France where the forces of the Central Power and the Allies battled each other |
| trench warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight from trenches dug in the battlerfield |
| Eastern Front | in WWI, the region along the Russian-German border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | the use of submarines to sink without any warning ship found in an enemy's water |
| total war | a conflict in which the participating devote all of their resources to the war effort |
| rationing | the limiting of amounts of goods people can buy, often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are 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 of the United States during WWI |
| Georges Clemenceau | leader of France during WWI |
| David Lloyd George | leader of Great Britain during WWI |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
| self-determination | the freedom of a people decide under what form of government the wish to live |
| Treaty of Versailles | a peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after WWI |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
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