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Chapter 26
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| trench warfare | war fought from trenches |
| total war | war that requires he use of all of society's resources |
| propaganda | information designed to influence people's opinions |
| Battle of Verdun | battle in which Germany tried to kill as many French soldiers as possible, believing the French could not bear to see this historic city captured |
| Gallipoli Campaign | Allied effort to destroy the Central Powers' guns and forts that lined the Dardanelles |
| genocide | the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| Bolsheviks | Marxist group that sought to lead a revolution against the Czar's government |
| Grigory Rasputin | self-proclaimed holy man and healer, adviser to Czarina Alexandra |
| Marxism-Leninism | another term for Bolshevism |
| Leon Trotsky | top Bolshevik official who negotiated for peace with the Central Powers |
| New Economic Plan | 1921 plan that permitted some capitalist activity in Russia in order to increase food production |
| Woodrow Wilson | United States President during World War I |
| U-boats | German submarines that threatened ships in the waters around Great Britain |
| Zimmerman Note | German diplomat's secret message to Mexico urging an attack on the United State |
| armistice | truce |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace, proposed in 1918 |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty that ended World War I and punished |
| League of Nations | organization of nations created with the hope of ending future wars |
| mandates | territories to be ruled by European powers |
| Balfour Declaration | statement issued by Britain in 1917 favoring the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine |
| Triple Alliance |