The Great War- WWI
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- propaganda
- information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
- zimmerman telegram
- March 1917. Sent from German Foreign Secretary, addressed to German minister in Mexico City. Mexico should attack the US if US goes to war with Germany (needed that advantage due to Mexico's promixity to the US). In return, Germany would give back Tex, NM, Arizona etc to Mexico.
- the Balkans
- Ethnic southeastern Europe
- trench warfare
- war from inside trenches enemies would try killing eachother with machine guns and tanks, and poison gas
- militarism
- a political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests
- stalemate
- drawing position in chess: any of a player's possible moves would place his king in check
- liberty bonds
- A payment made that will increase over to send to the war
- versailles treaty
- The compromise after WW1, settled land and freedom disputes
- dreadnought
- battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber
- shell shock
- a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare
- reparations
- payment for damages after a war
- attrition
- a wearing down to weaken or destroy
- schlieffen Plan
- German Plan to attack France
- draft
- forced military sevice of qualified individuals
- armistice
- a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
- self-determination
- the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will
- nationalism
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- fourteen points
- wilson's plan for world peace following world war I
- no mans land
- The space between fortified ditches