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world war 1
Question | Answer |
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Militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
Triple alliance | 1.an association of the city states of Tenochtitlan,Texcoco,and Tlacopan,which led to the formation of the aztec empire 2.a military alliance between Germany,austria hungary,and Italy in the years preceding world war 1. |
Kaiser wilhelm 2 | a German emperor |
Triple entente | a military alliance between great Britain,France,and russia in the years preceding world war 1. |
Schlieffen plan | germany 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 nation 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 world war 2. |
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 germany russian border where russian and serbs battled germans,austrians,and turks. |
Unrestricted | the use of sub marines to sink without waring any ship found in enemy 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 government 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 | lead of usa in the world war 1 |
Georges Clemenceau | lead of france in the world war 1 |
David Lloyd George | lead of British in the world war 1 |
Fourteen points | a series of proposals in which us president woodrow wilson outline a plan for achieving a lasting peace after world war 1. |
self-determination | the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government. |
Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War I. |
League of Nations | The League of Nationswas an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. |