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A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war |
Militarism |
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A military allience between Germany, Austria-Hungria and Italy in the year proceding World War I |
Triple alliance |
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A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years proceding World War I |
Triple Entrente |
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The nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought in their sides. |
Central Powers |
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The nations of Great Britain, France and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
Allies |
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The region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other |
Western Front |
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Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
Schlieffen Plan |
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A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
Trench warfare |
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The region along the German-Russian bordee where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians and Turks |
Eastern Front |
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The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in an enemys waters |
Unrestricted submarine |
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A conflict in which the participating countries devote their resources to the war effort |
Total war |
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The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy |
Rationing |
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Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause |
Propaganda |
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An agreement to stop fighting |
Armistice |
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An agreement to stop fighting |
Armistice |
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A series of proposals in which US president WoodRow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I |
Fourteen Points |
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The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live |
Self-determination |
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The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live |
Self-determination |
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The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I |
Treaty of Versailles |
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The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live |
Self-determination |
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The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I |
Treaty of Versailles |
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An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
League of Nations |
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Ruler of Germany |
Kaiser Wilhelm II |
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He wanted world peace. Served as president in Princeton |
Woodrow Wilson |
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One of the Big Four. Was the opposed of Woodrow Wilson |
Georges Clemenceau |
