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module 19 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 WWI; forced to abdicate in late 1918 |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance between England, France, and Russia in the years leading up to WWI |
| Central Powers | in WWI, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations who fought on their side |
| Allied Powers | in WWI, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Western Front | in WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battles each other |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Trench Warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
| Eastern Front | in WWI, the region along the German-Russia border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States; proposed the league of nations after WWI as a part of his 14 points |
| Georges Clemenceau | French politician; one of the major framers of of the Versailles Peace Treaty, insisting on German disarament and reparations |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which 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 |
| Alliances | an agreement between 2 or more states for mutual support |
| Industrialization | the development of industries in a country or region |
| Nationalism | a sense of pride in a country or ethnic group |
| Franz Ferdinand | the Archduke of Austria; his assassination was a major inciting incident for WWI |
| Lustiania | a British passenger ship that was owned by the Cunard Line, sank by a U-Boat in WWI |
| The Balkans | cluster of nations in Eastern Europe, between the Austro-Hungarian and the Ottoman Empires |
| "Gentleman's War" | a conduct of combat; mutual respect developed between German soldiers and Allied Powers' men during Trench Warfare during WWI |
| "No Man's Land" | a narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, it separated the German's and the Allied Powers trenches in WWI |
| "Total War" | includes 4 things: mobilization, refusal to compromise, the blurring of roles between soldiers and civilians, total control of society |
| U-Boats | a german submarine |
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