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World War I
Term | Definition |
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Triple Alliance | an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungry, 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-Hungry whose assassination by a Serb nationalist started World War I |
Gavrilo Princip | Serbian nationalist; he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry, which started World War I |
neutral | in a war, not aiding either side |
Central Powers | the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungry, and the ottoman Empire during World War 1 |
Allied Powers | the alliance formed between Britain, France, and Russia during World war I |
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, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions |
total war | a war that requires the use of all a society's resources |
propaganda | information such as posters and pamphlets created by governments in order to influence public opinion |
Battle of Verdun | the longest battle of World War I; in ended in stalemate, with both sides suffering hundreds of thousand of casualties |
Gallipoli Campaign | failed attempt by the Allies in World War 1 to take control of the Dardanelles |
genocide | the killing of an entire people |
Bolsheviks | Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communists |
Grigory Rasputin | A self-proclaimed Russian holy man and prominent figure at the court of Czar Nicholas II. He was viewed as corrupt, and supported 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 I |
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 I as a part of his fourteen Points. |
U-boats | submarines used by Germans in World War 1 and 2 |
Zimmermann Note | a telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to US 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 | treaty ending World War 1; requiring Germany to pay huge war reparations and establish 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 | a statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine |