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World history
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| militarism | The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war. |
| triple alliance | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding WW1. |
| Kaiser Wilhelm 11 | became ruler of Germany in 1892 and forced Bismarck to resign. |
| triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain , France, and Russia in the years preceding WW1. |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WW!, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. |
| Central Powers | In WW!, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
| Allies | The nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with other nations fought on their side; also the group of nations-including Great Britain, Soviet Union, and the United States that opposed the Axis powers in WW2 |
| Western Front | The region of northern France where the forces of the allies and the central forces battled each other. |
| trench warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battle field. |
| Eastern Front | the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | the use of submarine ships without warning any ship found in enemy's waters. |
| total war | a conflict in which the participating devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| rationing | the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during war time, when goods are short in supply. |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| propaganda | information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause. |
| Woodrow Wilson | Representative for the United States; he proposed a series of proposals , known as the Fourteen Points |
| Fourteen points | a series of proposals in which US president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving lasting peace after WW1 |
| Georges Clemenceau | Representaitve for France |
| David Lloyd George | Representative for Great Britain |
| 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 WW1. |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after WW1 w/ the goal of keeping peace among nations. |
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