WWI vocab
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| 293854555 | Militarism | the building up of a nation's military. prior to WWI, britain and germany were in an arms race | 0 | |
| 293854556 | mobalization | assembling troops and supplies to prepare for war. in central europe, this was done mainly by railroad | 1 | |
| 293854557 | alliance system | a system in which countries agree to protect each other if attacked. if one country was attacked, all its allies would go to war as well | 2 | |
| 293854558 | conscription | an aspect of total war in which all able-bodied men were force to join the war | 3 | |
| 293854559 | Otto Von Bismark | Prussian leader who unites states into Germany through a series of battles | 4 | |
| 293854560 | Alsace & Lorraine | Territories between Germany and France who's posession had gone back and forth for years. after WWI it was returned to France | 5 | |
| 293854561 | Triple Alliance/Central Powers | originally Germany, Austrio-Hungary, and Italy. agreed to protect each other when the impending war broke out. during the war, italy switched sides, but the Ottoman empire joined | 6 | |
| 293854562 | Triple Entente/Allied Powers | Originally France, Britain, and Russia. had and understanding, but not an alliance, to surpress the central powers during the war. Russia falls out due to Civil war, but U.S joins (victorious) | 7 | |
| 293854563 | Balkan Powder Keg | a period of tension in the Balkans (south east Europe) where political unrest lead to the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Duke, and then WWI | 8 | |
| 293854564 | Black Hand Society | a group of Serbians whose hatred of the Austrians in Serbia lead them to assassinate the heir to the Austrian throne. | 9 | |
| 293854565 | Gavrilo Princip | member of the Black Hand Society who assassinated Franz Ferdinand | 10 | |
| 293854566 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | heir to Austrio-Hungarian throne who was killed by Princip. his death triggered WWI | 11 | |
| 293854567 | Schlieffen Plan | the German plan to avoid fighting on two fronts simultaneously. first they would invade France, then Russia | 12 | |
| 293854568 | Trench Warfare | the strategy of 2 sides digging trenches separated by "no man's land" and attacking the other side. usually little progress is made | 13 | |
| 293854569 | war of attrition | the strategy of wearing down another side slowly. usually expensive and has a high death rate | 14 | |
| 293854570 | total war | a state in which all of a country's resources go towards the war effort.usually involves propaganda | 15 | |
| 293854571 | planned economies | a system in which a country's economy is directed by the government to manipulate a war budget | 16 | |
| 293854572 | Battle of the Marne | battle fought on the western front in which France held Germany back after a long, costly battle | 17 | |
| 293854573 | Battle of Tanenberg | a 2-pronged Russian invasion of Germany ending in German victory | 18 | |
| 293854574 | Battle of Verdun | a costly battle for the Germans and French which was a war of attrition. ended in French victory | 19 | |
| 293854575 | Battle of Gallipoli | an ally invasion of Turkey with the Turks holding down the allies and forcing them to retreat. | 20 | |
| 293854576 | Lawrence of Arabia | an Arab in the British military who lead to Arabs to revolt against the Turks | 21 | |
| 293854577 | Lusitania | a British vessel with over 100 American passengers sank by the Germans. this spurred the Americans to join the war | 22 | |
| 293854578 | Zimmerman Telegram | a telegram supposedly sent by a German officer to Mexico asking them to join the war. this was another reason why America joined | 23 | |
| 293854579 | unrestricted submarine warfare | Germans announced that they would sink any ship in British waters | 24 | |
| 293854580 | Woodrow Wilson | President of the U.S during WWI. he made many proposals in the WWI aftermath and treaty signing | 25 | |
| 293854581 | Kiel Mutiny | a mutiny of German sailors against the goverment. it lead to the end of WWI and the creation of the Weimar Republic | 26 | |
| 293854582 | armistance | an agreement to stop fighting signed by Germans on Nov 11 at 11 am | 27 | |
| 293854583 | Social Democrats | those who believed in a gradual approach to socialism, and not a radical revolution | 28 | |
| 293854584 | Friedrich Ebert | Leader of post-WWI Germany who promotes social democracy | 29 | |
| 293854585 | Paris Peace Conference | gathering of nations who fought in the war to discuss punishments and rewards for the countries in attendance | 30 | |
| 293854586 | Treaty of Versaillies | Treaty written by the allies that lists the punishments for the central powers | 31 | |
| 293854587 | Fourteen Points | Speech given by Wilson that proposed self-determination, a league of nations, openness of country interactions, etc | 32 | |
| 293854588 | self-determination | the belief that all people have a right to there own country. this grants freedoms to many countries once ruled by empires | 33 | |
| 293854589 | League of Nations | Proposed by Wilson, a concept of all nations having a voice where international problems could be settled | 34 | |
| 293854590 | David Llyod George | newly-elected Prime Minister of Britin who intended to make the Germans pay for their actions | 35 | |
| 293854591 | Georges Clemenceau | French representative who pressed for a harsh treaty towards Germany | 36 | |
| 293854592 | reparations | payments that the Germans were responsible for making to the allied countries to pay for the war | 37 | |
| 293854593 | War Guilt Clause | part of the treaty saying that the central powers were completely responsible for the start of the war | 38 | |
| 293854594 | mandates | the PPC agreed to abolish all colonies for self-determination, so European countries called them this instead | 39 | |
| 293854595 | lost generation | writers who believed that people had lost their sense of culture during the war and began using their art to change that | 40 | |
| 293854596 | Czar Nicholas II | an unrespected Russian Leader during WWI. he was the last Czar | 41 | |
| 293854597 | Grigori Rasputen | Son of a Russian peasant who claimed to have magic healing powers. he eventually became an advisor to the royal family, but many did not trust him | 42 | |
| 293854598 | March Revolution | this revolution lead to the fall of the Czars and resulted in a provisional government until a later rev. | 43 | |
| 293854599 | Duma | the Russian legislature | 44 | |
| 293854600 | soviets | council composed of Russian representatives | 45 | |
| 293854601 | Alexander Kerensky | leader of the provisional Russian government who would not return confiscated peasant houses | 46 | |
| 293854602 | Bolsheviks/Mensheviks | the Russian Communists lead by Lenin during WWI / opposition of the Bolsheviks | 47 | |
| 293854603 | V.I. Lenin | leader of Bolsheviks and believer in Marxism. Head of Communist Russia | 48 | |
| 293854604 | "Peace, Land, and Bread" | Lenin's slogan to gain the support of the lower class | 49 | |
| 293854605 | Treaty of Brest-Litvosk | secret treaty between Russia and Germany that allows Russian to leave the war at the cost of giving land to Germany | 50 | |
| 293854606 | Leon Trotsky | follower of Lenin who helped built up the Russian army | 51 | |
| 293854607 | Russian Civil war | war in which the Bolsheviks took power and protected their new government from their oppostions | 52 | |
| 293854608 | war communism | the concept of total war, but applied to the civil war in favor of the communists | 53 |
