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Chapter 26 Vocab
World War 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Triple Alliance | an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s |
| Triple Entente | an alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s |
| Franz Ferdinand | Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination by a Serb nationalist started World War 1 |
| Gavrilo Princip | Serbian nationalist; he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, which started World War 1 |
| neutral | in a war, not aiding either side |
| Central Powers | the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during World War 1 |
| Allied Powers | the alliance formed between Britain, France, and Russia during World War 1 |
| Western Front | during World War 1, the deadlocked region in northern France where German and Allied armies faced off |
| trench warfare | a form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches of deep ditches to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions |
| total war | a war that requires the use of all society's resources |
| propaganda | information such as posters and pamphlets created by governments in order to influence public opinion |
| Battle of Verdun | (1916) the longest battle of World War 1; it ended in stalemate, with both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties |
| Gallipoli Campaign | (1915) failed attempt by the Allies in World War 1 to take control of the Dardanelles |
| genocide | the killing of entire people |
| Bolsheviks | Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communist |
| Grigory Rasputin | a self-proclaimed Russian holy man and prominent figure at the court of Czar Nicholas II. He was viewed as corrupt, and support for czarist Russia deteriorated because of him. |
| Marxism-Leninism | the political and economic philosophy of the Bolsheviks, expounded by Vladimir Lenin, which looked to an uprising of the proletariat that would abolish private property and enforce social equality |
| Leon Trotsky | Russian communist revolutionary; he negotiated the peace between Russia and the Central Powers to end Russian involvement in World War 1 |
| New Economic Policy | Lenin's plan, started in 1921, to allow limited capitalism, especially among farmers, in order to restore the Soviet economy |
| Woodrow Wilson | Twenty-eighth president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War 1 as part of his fourteen points |
| U-boats | submarines used by Germans in World Wars 1 and 2 |
| Zimmermann Note | a telegram sent to German official in Mexico prior to U.S entrance into World War 1; proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico |
| armistice | an agreement to cease fighting, usually in a war |
| fourteen points | President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post-World War 1 Europe and for avoiding future wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | (1919) treaty ending World War 1; required Germany to pay huge War reparations and established the League of Nations |
| League of Nations | an international body of nations formed after World War 1 to prevent future wars |
| Mandates | territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the league of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after World War 1 |
| Balfour Declaration | (1917) a statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
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