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WWI Vocabulary
WWI Vocabulary Terms
Question | Answer |
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Belief or desire of a government to maintain a strong military | militarism |
Last German Emperor and King of Prussia | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgeria | Central Powers |
Main theater of war during WWI | Western Front |
Type of combat in which opposing troops fought in trenches facing each other | Trench Warfare |
War this is unrestricted in types of weapons used | Total War |
Having only a fixed amount of a particular commodity | Rationing |
Agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time | Armistice |
American statesman and academic who served as the 28th president | Woodrow Wilson |
Important peace treaty what brought the war to an end | Treaty of Versailles |
Process by which a country determines its own allegiance and governments | Self-determination |
Statement of principles that was to be used for peace negotiations to end the war | Fourteen points |
Prime Minister of France during WWI | Georges Clemenceau |
Name given to German war plans and influence of Field Von Schlieffen and his thinking on the invasion of France and Belgium | Schlieffen Plan |
Naval warfare of submarines sinking vessels and freighters | Unrestricted submarine warfare |
Information, biased or misleading, to promote a particular political point of view | Propaganda |