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world war 1 part 2
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Bolsheviks | Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communists. The Reds |
Mensheviks | A member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, opposed to the Bolsheviks and defeated by them after the overthrow of the tsar in 1917. The Whites |
Woodrow Wilson | (1856–1924) Twenty-eighth president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War I as a part of his Fourteen Points. |
U-boats | Submarines used by Germans in World Wars I and II. |
Zimmermann Note | A telegram sent to a German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into World War I; proposed an 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–World War I Europe and for avoiding future wars. |
Treaty of Versailles | (1919) 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 World War I to prevent future wars. |
Mandate | Territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after World War I. |
Balfour Declaration | (1917) A statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. |