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Chapter 26
Vocabulary
| 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 throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination by a Serb nationalist started WWI |
| Gavrilo Princip | Serbian nationalist; he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, which started WWI |
| Neutral | In a war, not aiding either side |
| Central Powers | The alliance between Germany, Austria Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during WW1 |
| Allied Powers | The alliance formed between Britain, France, and Russia, during WW1 |
| Western Front | During WW1, 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 Verdum | The longest battle of WW1, it ended in stalemate, with both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties |
| Galliipoli Campaign | failed attempt by the Allies in WWI 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 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 WW1 |
| New Economic Policy | Lenin's plan, started in 1921 to allow limited capitalism, especially among farmers, on order to restore the Soviet economy |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States, he proposed the League of Nations after WWI s a part of his Fourteen Points |
| U-Boats | Submarines used by Germans in WWI and WWI |
| Zimmermann Note | A telegram sent to a German official in ,Mexico prior to US entrance into WW1, proposed 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-WW1 Europe and for avoiding future wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | Treaty ending World War I, required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations |
| League of Nations | An international body of nations formed after WW1 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 WW1 |
| Balfour Declaration | A statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
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