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14 Points |
1-18-1918, President Wilson gave speech to Congress that outlined Fourteen Points for peace and the end to World War I.
Others did not agree |
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Alliance |
Union between two parties |
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Triple Alliance |
A military alliance among Germany, Austria–Hungary, and Italy.
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Triple Entente |
Association between Great Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined towards the end. |
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Blank Check |
Promise by Germany of unconditional support for whatever action Austria-Hungary takes. |
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Isolationism |
Being reluctant into getting involved in affairs. |
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League of Nations |
International organization created after the First World War to provide resolution to international disputes.
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Lloyd-George |
Prime Minister of Britain during WW1. |
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Neutrality |
Taking no side. |
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Propaganda |
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. |
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Reparations |
Payment made to victor by the vanquished to cover the cost of war. |
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Schlieffen Plan |
Plan for war by Germany made in 1897. Based on the theory that in 1914 Germany would be at war with France and Russia at the same time |
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Stalemate |
A situation during Trench Warfare where no one can win. |
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Total War |
Involving the governments, economies and populations of participating nations. |
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
Russia signs a treaty with the Central Powers in 1918 to leave the War due to internal conflict. |
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Trench Warfare |
Fighting from ditches against each other. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
President during WW1, introduced 14 Point plan. |
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Democracy |
A system of government in which power is vested in the people, who rule either directly or through freely elected representatives. |
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Treaty of Versailles |
Peace treaty that ended World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Placed limitations and restrictions on Germany. |
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Abdicate |
To step down from power. Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia, steps down from power in 1917. |
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Bloody Sunday |
A weak willed Czar allowed Imperial Forces to open fire on the demonstrators, killing and wounding hundreds on 1-22-1905. Strikes and riots broke out. |
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Capitalism |
a way of organizing an economy so that the things that are used to make and transport products, like land, factories and ship are owned by individual people and companies and not by the government |
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Cheka |
The secret police set up in 1917 by the Bolshevik Government |
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Communism |
way of organizing a society in which the government owns the things that are used to make and transport products like land, oil, factories and ships and there is no privately owned property |
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Lenin |
Lenin orchestrated the October Revolution in 1917, led to the overthrow of the Provisional Government(replaced Czar) and the establishment of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic. |
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February Revolution (March) |
Took place in March of 1917. Caused by chronic food shortages forcing Czar to abdicate. |
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New Economic Policy |
It was a policy by Lenin designed to bring capital into the struggling state. |
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October Revolution |
Took place in November of 1917, the Bolshevik party, led by Vladimir Lenin, and the workers' Soviets, overthrew the Provisional Government. |
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Provisional Government |
Replaced the Czar's government that collapsed during the revolution in March 1917. Overthrown by Bolsheviks. |
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Rasputin |
A Russian peasant, mystical faith healer and a trusted friend to the Czar's family who contributed to the family's downfall. |
