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| 369079998 | Militarism | the policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war | 0 | |
| 369079999 | Triple Entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. | 1 | |
| 369080000 | Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies | 2 | |
| 369080001 | Kaiser Wilhelm | King of Prussia and Emperor of Germany whose political policies led his country into World War I. He was forced from power when Germany lost the war | 3 | |
| 369080002 | Western Front | A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other. | 4 | |
| 369080003 | Schlieffen Plan | Attack plan by Germans, proposed by Schliffen, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France, Belgium resisted, other countries took up their aid, long fight, used trench warfare. | 5 | |
| 369080004 | Trench Warefare | A new technique- it defended a position by fighting the from the protection of deep ditches. | 6 | |
| 369080005 | Eastern Front | In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. | 7 | |
| 369080006 | Conscription | drafting of civilians to serve in the army | 8 | |
| 369080007 | Total War | a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields. | 9 | |
| 369080008 | Rationing | a limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use | 10 | |
| 369080009 | Propaganda | information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. | 11 | |
| 369080010 | Armistice | a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | 12 | |
| 369080011 | Battle Of Midway | U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II. | 13 | |
| 369080012 | Woodrow Wilson | After World War I, this United States president sought to reduce the risk of war by writing the Fourteen Points that influenced the creation of the League of Nations. | 14 | |
| 369080013 | Georges Clemenceau | French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929) | 15 | |
| 369080014 | Fourteen Points | It was Wilson's peace plan. Each of the points were designed to prevent future wars. He compromised each point at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The only point which remained was the 14th (League of Nations). Each one was appealing to a specific group in the war and each one held a specific purpose. | 16 | |
| 369080015 | Self-Determination | the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will | 17 | |
| 369080016 | Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans | 18 | |
| 369080017 | League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | 19 | |
| 369080018 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924) | 20 | |
| 369080019 | Balfour Declaration | British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI | 21 | |
| 369080020 | Sun-Yat-Sen | The first great revolutionary leader in 20th century China who founded the ALliance League in 1905. The League aimed to overthrow the Qing to make china a republic, get rid of foreign powers and distribute land to peasants. He created the three principles of the people, Nationalism, Socialism and Democracy. After the Revolution, he returned from overseas to lead china, however failed to leaed successfully. He handed power to Yuan Shikai. | 22 | |
| 369080021 | Yuan Shikai | Chinese general and first president of the Chinese Republic (1912-1916). He stood in the way of the democratic movement led by Sun Yat-sen. (p. 768) | 23 | |
| 369080022 | Goumindang | A nationalist party. It's a combination of nationalism and some Marxism. It was primarily a nationalst party | 24 | |
| 369080023 | mandate system | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision. | 25 | |
| 369080024 | Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945. The bombing hastened the end of World War II. (p. 797) | 26 | |
| 369080025 | 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 | 27 | |
| 369080026 | Albert Einstien | Einstien was a Jew who escaped Germany because of the threat of the Holocaust. He was a scientest who told America that he could help build an atomic bomb, but Germany was alson in this process. | 28 | |
| 369080027 | Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) | 29 | |
| 369080028 | Five-Year Plans | Plans that Joseph Stalin introduced to industrialize the Soviet Union rapidly, beginning in 1928. They set goals for the output of steel, electricity, machinery, and most other products and were enforced by the police powers of the state. (781) | 30 | |
| 369080029 | Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) | 31 | |
| 369080030 | fascist | someone who advocates or supports a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized government headed by a dictator, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition | 32 | |
| 369080031 | Chaing Kai-Shek | leader of nationalist, anti communist, forces in China | 33 | |
| 369080032 | Mao Zedong | Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (1927-1976). He led the Communists on the Long March (1934-1935) and rebuilt the Communist Party and Red Army during the Japanese occupation of China (1937-1945). (789) | 34 | |
| 369080033 | Long March | The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek. | 35 | |
| 369080034 | Stalingrad | City in Russia, site of a Red Army victory over the Germany army in 1942-1943. The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point in the war between Germany and the Soviet Union. Today Volgograd. (p. 793) | 36 | |
| 369080035 | El Alamein | Town in Egypt, site of the victory by Britain's Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery over German forces led by General Erwin Rommel (the 'Desert Fox') in 1942-1943. (p. 793) | 37 | |
| 369080036 | Pearl Harbor | United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941. | 38 | |
| 369080037 | Holocaust | A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled. | 39 |
