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Industrialism | An economic and social system based on the development of large-scale industries and marked by the production of large quantities of inexpensive manufactured goods and the concentration of employment in urban factories. |
balance of power | Distribution of power in which no single nation is able to dominate or interfere with others. |
Triple Alliance | two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I. |
Triple Entente | two international combinations of states that dominated the diplomatic history of Western Europe from 1882 until they came into armed conflict in World War I. |
Central Powers | Its primary members were the German empire and Austria-Hungary, the "central" European states that were at war from August 1914 against France, Britain, and Russia. |
Allies | To place in a friendly association, as by treaty: Italy allied itself with Germany during World War II. |
Western Front | Western Front was a term used during the First and Second World Wars to describe the "contested armed frontier" between lands controlled by Germany to the East and the Allies to the West. |