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militarism
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glorification of military strength
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no- man's land
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strip of bombed out territory that separated the trenches of opposing armies along the Western front
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trench warfare
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military strategy of defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches
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Franz Ferdinand
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Archduke of Austria- Hungary who was assasinated by Princip which was the immediate cause of WWI
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Gavrilo Princip
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19 year old Serbian who assasinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife
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Allied Powers
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Bitain, France Russia and later the US that fought against the Central Powers
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Central Powers
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Austria,Hungary, Germany,the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
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First Battle of the Marne
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the Allies stopped German advance near the Marne river
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Battle of the Somme
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British lost 60,000 troops in one day
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Manfred von Richthofen
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most successful German Baron he reported 80 skills
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