Question | Answer |
Militarism | The policy of glorifying military and keeping an army prepared for war |
Triple Alliance | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and /ital in the years preceding World War I |
Kaiser Wilhelm II | A German emperor |
Triple Entente | A military alliance with Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I |
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 |
Central Powers | In World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with other nations that fought on their sides |
Allies | In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations-including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United State-that opposed the Axis Powers in World War II |
Western Front | In World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Centrals Powers battled each other |
Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
Easter Front | In World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship(including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in enemy waters |
Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
Rationing | The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are short in supply |
Propaganda | Info or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause |
Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
Woodrow Wilson | Thomas Woodrow Wilson, known as Woodrow Wilson, was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 |
George Clemenceau | Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was a French statesman who led the nation in the First World War. A leader of the Radical Party, he played a central role in politics during the Third Republic |
David Lloyd George | David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor, OM, PC was a British Liberal politician and statesman |
Fourteen Points | The series of proposals in which US president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
Self-determination | The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live in |
Treaty of Versailles | The peace treaty signed by Germany and the allied powers after WWI |
League of Nations | An international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations |