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Chapter 26: The World at War

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Triple Alliance   An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the late 1800s.  
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Triple Entente   An alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain in the late 1800s.  
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Franz Ferdinand   Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination by a Serb nationalist started World War 1.  
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Gavrilo Princip   Serbian nationalist; he assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, which started World War 1.  
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Neutral   In a war, not aiding either side.  
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Central Powers   The alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during World War 1.  
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Allied Powers   The alliance formed between Britain, France, and Russia during World War 1.  
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Western Front   During World War 1, the deadlocked region in the northern France where German and Allied armies faced off.  
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Trench Warfare   A form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions.  
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Total War   A war requires the use of all a society's resources.  
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Propaganda   Information such as posters and pamphlets created by governments in order to influence public opinion.  
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Battle of Verdun   The longest battle of World War 1; it ended in stalemate, with both sides suffering hundreds of thousands of casualties.  
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Gallipoli Campaign   Failed attempt by the Allies in World War 1 to take control of the Dardanelles.  
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Genocide   The killing of an entire people.  
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Bolsheviks   Marxists whose goal was to seize state power and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat; Soviet Communists.  
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Grigory Rasputin   A self-proclaimed Russian holy man and prominent figure at the court of Czar Nicholas II. He was viewed as corrupt, and support for czarist Russian deteriorated because of him.  
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Marxism-Leninism   The political and economical philosophy of the Bolsheviks, expounded by Vladimir Lenin, which looked to an uprising of the proletariat that would abolish private property and enforce social equality.  
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New Economic Policy   Lenin's plan, started in 1921, to allow limited capitalism, especially among farmers, in order to restore the Soviet economy.  
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Woodrow Wilson   28 president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War 1 as a part of his Fourteen Points.  
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U-boats   Submarines used by Germans in World Wars 1 and 2.  
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Zimmermann Note   A telegram sent to German official in Mexico prior to U.S. entrance into World War 1; proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico.  
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Armistice   An agreement to cease fighting, usually in a war.  
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Fourteen Points   President Woodrow Wilson's plan for organizing post- World War 1 Europe and for avoiding future wars.  
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Treaty of Versailles   Treaty ending World War 1; required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations.  
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League of Nations   An international body of nations formed after World War 1 to prevent future wars.  
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Mandates   Territories once part of the Ottoman Empire that the League of Nations gave to other European powers to rule after World War 1.  
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Balfour Declaration   A statement issued by the British foreign secretary in favor of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.  
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Leon Trotsky   Russian communist revolutionary; he negotiated the peace between Russia and the Central Powers to end Russian involvement in World War 1.  
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