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Chapter 29
The Great War (WWI)
Term | Definition |
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Militartism | 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 WWI |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | German ruler that overthrew Bismarck. Wanted to display to the world the power of a fully united Germany. He wanted to destroy France |
Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding WWI |
Central Powers | In WWI, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with other nations that fought on their side |
Allies | In WWI, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
Western Front | In WWI, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battles each other |
Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
Eastern Front | In WWI, 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 enemy's waters |
Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the ear 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 or a cause or or to damage an opponent's cause |
Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States and member of the Big Four. His Fourteen Points were incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles |
Georges Clemenceau | French king and member of the Big Four. Did not agree with Wilson's Fourteen Points and wanted to punish Germany more severely |
Fourteen Points | A series of proposals in which US President Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
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 WWI |
League of Nations | An international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations |