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WW1
Chapter 29 vocab
| 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 1 |
| Kaiser Wihelm II | Ruler of Germany |
| 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 outbreak 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 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 | part of the Big Four-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 outlines 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 |