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Module 25
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war |
| Triple Alliance | a military alliance between Germany, Austria- Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding WWI |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Last German emperor and king of Prussia; known for his militaristic outlook and often blamed for the outbreak of World War I; forced to abdicate in late 1918 |
| Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I |
| Which country had the largest standing army in 1914? | Russia |
| Which country had the highest gross domestic product in 1913? | Germany |
| Which sea did Bosnia-Herzegovina allow Austria-Hungary to access? | Austria-Hungary |
| Which Central Powers nation did not share a border with its allies? | Ottoman Empire |
| In which Allied nation did most battles on the Western Front take place? | France |
| Central Powers | in World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-HUngary along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Allies | in World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Western Front | in World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Trench | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battle field |
| Eastern Front | in World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| Outside of Europe, in what regions did fighting take place in World War I? | Fighting took place in Africa, Southwest Asia, and Asia. |
| Which Allied nation suffered the greatest number of battlefield deaths? | Germany |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship, found in an enemyś waters |
| total war | a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort |
| Rationing | the limiting of the amount of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply |
| propaganda | information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponentś cause |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Which nation appears to have lost the most territory? | Austria |
| Woodrow Wilson | he proposed the League of Nations after WWI as a part of his Fourteen Points |
| Georges Clemenceau | French politician; he was one of the major framers of the Versailles Peace Treaty, insisting on German disarmament and reparations |
| Fourteen Points | series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after WWI |
| League of Nations | international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
| self-determination | the freedom of people to decided under what form of government they wish to live |
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