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Triple Alliance |
A military alliance among germany austria and Bulgaria
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Central Powers |
Germany and its allies austria hungary and bulgaria and ottoman empire in world war 1
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Trench warfare |
Type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing eachother
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Lusitania |
First major crisis challenge u.s neautility sinking of the lusitania
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Total war |
a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded
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Petrograd Soviet |
was a city council of Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), the capital of the Russian Empire.
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Bolsheviks |
a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.
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War communism |
the economic and political system that existed in Soviet Russia during the Russian CivilWar, from 1918 to 1921.
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Cheka |
was the first of a succession of Soviet state security organizations.
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League of Nations |
An international organization established after World War I under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles
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Treaty of Versailles |
document signed between Germany and the Allied Powers following World War I that officially ended that war.
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Balfour Declaration |
a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild
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