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Ch 27 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Conscription | Military draft |
| Mobilization | The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war |
| Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a Cause |
| trench warfare | Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire as in World War I |
| War of Attrition | A war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses, such as World War I |
| Total War | A war that involved the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefield |
| Planned Economies | An economic system directed by government agencies |
| Soviets | Russian Councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers |
| War Communism | In World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and centralization of state administration under communist control |
| Abdicate | To formally give up control of a country or state |
| Armistice | A truce or an agreement to end fighting. |
| Mandate | A territory temporarily governed by another country on behalf of the League of Nations. |
| Reparation | A payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover the costs of war |
| Battle of the Marne | A WWI battle fought from 6-10 September 1914. It resulted in an Allied Victory against the German armies in the west |
| Battle of Verdun | |
| Fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916, was the largest and longest battle of the first world war on the Western Front between The German and French armies | |
| Triple Alliance | A secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Triple Entente | An agreement between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Von Schlieffen Plan | The German army's plan for war against France and Russia |
| Assassination in Sarajevo | The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria |
| Western Front | Belgium, France, and Western Germany |
| Eastern Front | Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe |
| Indian Front | Fought against Germany |
| Gallipoli | A campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli Peninsula |
| Lusitania | A British Ocean Liner that was in operation during the early 20th centurt |
| Bolsheviks | A member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917 |
| Woodrow Wilson | An American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 |
| Paris Peace Conference | The meeting of the victorious Allied Powers following the end of WWI to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers |
| 14 Point Plan | A statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I |
| League of Nations | An intergovernmental organization founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference |
| Article 231 | The War Guilt Clause |
| Versailles Treaty | Ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers |
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