Global History Test 6 Vocab
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- Junkers
- Strongly conservative members of Prussia's wealthy landowning class
- Otto von Bismarck
- The prime minister of Germany, who was a master of realpolitik
- Realpolitik
- "The politics of reality"--tough power politics with no room for idealism
- Franco-Prussian War
- The war between Prussia and France that Bismarck started to gain control of the rest of the southern German states
- Militarism
- A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war
- Triple Alliance
- A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- The ruler of Germany during World War I who began a tremendous shipbuilding program, and made Germany the enemy of France and Russia by letting it's treaty with Russia lapse
- Triple Entente
- A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I
- Central Powers
- The nations of Germany, and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side
- Allies
- The nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side
- Western Front
- The region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers fought
- Schlieffen Plan
- Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia
- Trench warfare
- A form of warfare in which opposing armied fought each other from trenches dug in the battlefield
- Eastern Front
- The region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks
- Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
- The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships, and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters
- Total war
- A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort
- Rationing
- The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy--often imposed by governments during war time, when goods are short in supply
- Propaganda
- information of material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause
- Armistice
- An agreement to stop fighting
- Woodrow Wilson
- The president of the U.S. during WWI, who made a plan for peace called the Fourteen Points
- Georges Clemenceau
- The representative of France in the group called the Big Four that discussed decisions during WWI
- Fourteen Points
- A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI
- Self-determination
- The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live
- Treaty of Versailles
- The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after WWI
- League of Nations
- An international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations