WW1
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Terms
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- Militarism
- glorifying military power, and having a large standing army
- Triple Alliance
- alliance between Germany, Austria, Italy
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- ruler of Germany 1888, allowed treaties with both Britain and Russia to deteriorate, Built a massive navy to contend with Britain, Formed alliance with Austria, and Italy
- Central Powers
- Germany and Austria-Hungary, location in the heart of Europe
- Allies
- France, Russia, Great Britain, Japan, Italy
- Western Front
- deadlock in Northern France
- Schlieffen Plan
- battle strategy for fighting on two fronts, plan was to attack and defeat France to the West then mass forces on the Eastern front to fight Russia.
- trench warfare
- miles of parallel trenches built by the opposing army on the western front
- Armenian Genocide
- 1.5 million Armenians died slaughtered by the ottoman empire blamed for the loss of WW1
- armistice
- an agreement to stop fighting
- Balfour Declaration
- Declaration to re-establish the Jews a home in Palestine
- Bolsheviks
- a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917
- Franz Ferdinand
- archduke of austria who is assassinated by serbian nationalist; sparks WWI
- League of Nations
- An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.
- Vladimir Lenin
- Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR
- mobilization
- the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
- New Economic Policy
- Lenin's economy reform that re-established economic freedom in an attempt to build agriculture and industry
- propaganda
- ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
- rationing
- a system of allocating scarce goods and services using criteria other than price
- reparations
- payment for damages after a war
- self-determination
- the right of people to choose their own form of government
- Soviets
- a Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.
- Total War
- the channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
- Treaty of Versailles
- Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
- Triple Entente
- Russia, France, Great Britain
- Nicholas II
- the last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution
- Two Front War
- when Germany had to fight two different countries from the East and the West
- unrestricted submarine warfare
- A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters
- war guilt
- responsibility for war on germany
- Zimmerman note
- Message proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico