WWI Vocabulary
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- armistice
- a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
- V.I. Lenin
- led bolshevik revolution in russia, overthrew kerensky
- attrition
- sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
- Armenian Genocide
- 1.5 million armenians died slaughtered by the ottoman empire blamed for the loss of WW1
- President Woodrow Wilson
- President at the time of WWI
- The Unknown Soldier
- A monument that represents all the soldiers who fell in battle but are unidentified.
- Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
- Event that sparked WWI
- shell shock
- a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare
- Draft
- a system of gathering citizens to join their country's army
- The Big Four
- The Four leaders of the Allied powers
- reparations
- payment for damages after a war
- propaganda
- information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
- Allied Powers
- Great Britain, France, Russia, US
- General John J. Pershing
- commander of the AEF who refused to dispense his units on the western front in WWI
- Sinking of the Luisitania
- an unarmed passenger ship traveling across the Atlantic: sunk by German U-Boats
- ANZAC forces
- An army of New Zealand and Australia that was formed in Egypt as a part of the reorganization of the Australian Imperial Force.
- Militarism
- n. A policy of maintaining great standing armies.
- Tsar Nicholas II
- Russian king during WWI
- Battle of Verdun
- September 26, 1918: Last US engagement, US fights alone
- no man's land
- Territory between rival Trenches, very dangerous
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- young austrian heir whose assasination triggered WWI
- The Eastern Front
- The fighting between the border's of Germany and Russia as characterized by the horrible Russian defeats at the Battle of Tannenberg and Masurian Lakes.
- Battle of the Somme
- Large battle involving many deaths and no victor
- stalemate
- a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
- 11th hour of 11th day of 11th month
- Signing of German armstice
- Influenza pandemic
- 1918 global outbreak of influenza, a highly contagious viral infection, killing as many as 30 million people worldwide.
- Fourteen Points
- wilson's plan for world peace following world war I
- October and February Revolutions in Russia
- Revolutions to overthrow the gov. so
- Nationalism
- love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
- Versailles Treaty
- treaty ending WWI, very unfair to Germany and a cause for WWII
- The Western Front
- The fighting between the border's of Germany, Belgium, and France as characterized of two lines of trenches extending from the English Channel to Switzerland.
- self determination
- ability of a gov. to determine their own course of their own free will
- Versailles Treaty
- The Peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after WWI: unfair towards Germany
- Schlieffen plan
- German Plan to attack France
- Liberty Bonds
- government bonds sold to gain money for war,
- Gavrilo Princip
- man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- trench warfare
- war from inside trenches enemies would try killing eachother with machine guns and tanks, and poison gas
- Battle of Gallipoli
- 1915, allies sent to open Dardanelle Strait, Turks tied down Allies on beaches, 10 months later, Allies withdrew
- Zimmerman telegram
- A telegram Germany Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack the U.S.
- Alfred von Schlieffen
- Man who planned to go through belguim to attack france.
- The Christmas Truce
- day of truce on christmas in 1914
- Central Powers
- Germany, Austria, Hungary, Turkey
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- German Emperor during WWI
- Bolsheviks
- Party that took over russia by overthrowing kerensky
- Balkans
- the Balkan countries collectively