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WWI Russian Rev
SHS MWH World War I and Russian Revolution
Question | Answer |
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Western Front | the battlefields of northern France in World War I |
rationing | system in which a government limits the amounts of items people can buy |
Fourteen Points | Wilson’s plan for achieving a just and lasting peace after World War I |
trench warfare | a type of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from parallel trenches |
Eastern Front | a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border in World War I |
total war | war in which countries devote all their resources to the war effort |
militarism | policy of glorifying war and keeping an army prepared for war |
Propaganda | one-sided information designed to persuade |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | leader of Germany during WW1 |
Schlieffen Plan | The German battle strategy that called for attacking and defeating France in the west and then rushing east to fight Russia |
armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
Woodrow Wilson | American president during World War I, author of Fourteen Points |
Georges Clemenceau | French representative at the Treaty of Versailles. |
Triple Alliance | Italy, Germany and Austria-Hungary |
Triple Entente | England, France, Russia |
Treaty of Versailles | The harsh peace settlement dictated by the Allies at the end of WWI. |
League of Nations | International association whose goal was to provide a way for countries to settle disputes without violence. |
self-determination | Guiding principle behind the Fourteen Points, people should be allowed to decide for themselves what type of government they wished to live under. |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | The agreement that ended fighting on the Eastern Front, withdrawing Russia from WWI and giving Germany much of Eastern Europe. |
Balkans | mountainous peninsular area of south-east Europe, includes land from Greece to Serbia and along both the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea |