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World War I and the Russian Revolution
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conscription | military draft |
| Mobilization | the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war |
| Propaganda | ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause |
| trench warfare | fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in WWI |
| war of attrition | a war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses, such as World War I |
| total war | a war that involved the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefield |
| planned economy | an economic system directed by government agencies |
| Soviets | Russian councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers |
| abdicate | to formally give up control of a country or state |
| War Communism | in World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control |
| Armistice | a truce or an agreement to end fighting reparation a payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover the costs of war |
| Mandate | a territory temporarily governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations |
| Reparation | payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover the costs of war |
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