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War of attrition

War based on wearing down the other side by constant attacks and heavy losses

Trench warfare

Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire

Mobilization

Process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war

Conscription

Military draft

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

Leon Trotsky

Head of the Petrograd soviets; revolutionary

Gavrilo Princip

19 year old Bosnian Serb who succeeded in shooting both the Archduke and his wife

Woodrow Wilson

United States president during World War I

Czar Nicholas II

Russian leader; ordered partial mobilization of Russian army against Austria-Hungary

Alexandra

Key figure in Russia who was influenced by Grigori Rasputin

Archduke France Ferdinand

Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary; was shot by Gavrilo Princip

Emperor William II

German who pledged Germany's full support to Austria-Hungary

Alfred von Schlieffen

German general who authored the von Schlieffen plan

Lawrence of Arabia

British officer who encouraged Arab princes to rise against their overlords in 1917

Admiral Holtzendorff

Urged the emperor that no American would land on the European continent

Grigori Rasputin

Uneducated Siberian peasant who claimed to be a holy man

V. I. Lenin

Leader of the Bolsheviks

Alexander Kerensky

Head of the Russian provisional government after Nicholas II stepped down

Erick von Ludendorff

Guided Germany military operations

Friedrich Ebert

Leader of the new democratic republic of Germany after William II left

David Lloyd George

Prime Minister of Great Britain

Georges Clemenceau

Premier of France