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World War 1
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 Wilhelm II | a German emperor |
| 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, also, the group of nations including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States that opposed the Axis Powers in WW11 |
| 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 (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 | a United States member of the group, Big Four |
| Georges Clemenceau | a France member of the group, Big Four |
| David Lloyd George | a Great Britain, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy member of the group Big Four |
| 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 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 |