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| 132573459 | Battle of the Marne | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in 1918 | 0 | |
| 132573460 | trench warfare | war from inside trenches enemies would try killing eachother with machine guns and tanks, and poison gas | 1 | |
| 132573461 | western front | Complex system of trenches and earthworks that ran for 550 miles from the North sea to Switzerland that pitted Germany against Belgium,France,Britain and the U.S. | 2 | |
| 132573462 | stalemate | a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | 3 | |
| 132573463 | no-man's land | Territory between rival Trenches, very dangerous | 4 | |
| 132573464 | machine guns | The machine gun, which fires ammunition automatically, was much improved by the time of WWI. As a result, it saw wide use in combat. Because the gun could wipe out waves of attackers and made it difficult for forces to advance, it helped create a stalemate. | 5 | |
| 132573465 | mustard gas | a toxic war gas with sulfide based compounds that raises blisters and attacks the eyes and lungs | 6 | |
| 132573466 | tanks | heavy armored vehicle which could travel over barbed wire and across enemy trenches | 7 | |
| 132573467 | airplanes | used mainly for scouting enemy ground forces. Later used as fighters (attack other planes) or as bombers. Most planes of WWI were wooden biplanes (2 wings) | 8 | |
| 132573468 | aerial reconnaissance | the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) from the air on airplanes | 9 | |
| 132573469 | ace fighters | publicized and glamorized aerial combat of the Great War | 10 | |
| 132573470 | dog fights | An aerial battle between two or more aircrafts. | 11 | |
| 132573471 | submarine | vessel that can go under water, or situated under water | 12 | |
| 132573472 | infantry | an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot | 13 | |
| 132573473 | Eastern Front | In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. | 14 | |
| 132573474 | Battle of Verdun | One of the most critical battles in World War I on the Western Front, fought between the German and French armies from 21 February to 18 December 1916 around the city of Verdun-sur-Meuse in northeast France. Resulted in more than a quarter of a million deaths and at least a million wounded. It was the longest battle and one of the bloodiest in World War I and more generally in human history. In both France and Germany it has come to represent the horrors of war. | 15 | |
| 132573475 | zeppelin | large gas-filled balloon (used by Germany to bomb England) | 16 | |
| 132573476 | naval blockade | It was an attempt to keep everything from getting into a country through using the Navy. This was used by the british in order to force germany to surrender. | 17 | |
| 132573477 | homefront | the places where civilians are active when their country is at war. | 18 | |
| 132573478 | attrition | a wearing down to weaken or destroy | 19 | |
| 132573479 | belligerents | nations at war | 20 | |
| 132573480 | conscription | compulsory military service | 21 | |
| 132573481 | shells | devices that exploded in the air or when they hit something | 22 | |
| 132573482 | TNT | explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene | 23 | |
| 132573483 | propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause | 24 | |
| 132573484 | Hun | offensive terms for a person of German descent | 25 | |
| 132573485 | Twenty-One Demands | list of demands given to China by Japan in 1915 that, if agreed to, would have made China a protectorate of Japan | 26 | |
| 132573486 | Battle of Gallipoli | Also known as the Gallipoli campaign, it took place at the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey from April-January 1915-1916. It was a joint British and French operation meant to capture the capital city Constantinople and to secure a sea route to Russia. This failed, with nearly half a million casualties. | 27 | |
| 132573487 | Dardanelles Strait | the water passage connecting the north aegean sea to sea of marmora and constantinople | 28 | |
| 132573488 | Armenian Massacre | turkish troops killed tens of thousands of armenians (1890s), armenians supported enemies of the turks in WWI, 2 million armenians are deported, 600,000 are killed by turkish troops or starved to death. | 29 |
