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151204412Black HandPre-World War I secret Serbian society; one of its members, Gavrilo Princip, assassinated Austrian archduke Francis Ferdinand and provided the spark for the outbreak of the Great War.0
151204413BolshevikRussian communist party headed by Lenin.1
151204414Central PowersWorld War I term for the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire.2
151204415CommunismPhilosophy and movement that began in middle of the nineteenth century with the work of Karl Marx; it has the same general goals as socialism, but it includes the belief that violent revolution is necessary to destroy the bourgeois world and institute a new world run by and for the proletariat.3
151204416GallipoliWorld War I battle in which the British lead a disastrous attack on the Ottomans; the number of Allied casualties weakens loyalty between Britain and Canada, Australia, and New Zealand4
151204417LuisitaniaBritish passenger liner sunk in 1915 that helped sway American opinion of the war.5
151204418Mandate systemSystem that developed in the wake of World War I when the former colonies became mandates under European control, a thinly veiled attempt at continuing imperialism.6
151204419October RevolutionBolsheviks seize power from Russian provisional government in the name of all Soviets.7
151204420RomanovRussian dynasty (1610-1917) founded by Mikhail Romanov and ending with Nicholas II.8
151204421Schlieffen PlanGermany's World War I plan of attack in which they would swiftly attack France and then fight a defensive war against Russia.9
151204422Self-determinismBelief popular in World War I and after that every people should have the right to determine their own political destiny; the belief was often cited but ignored by the Great Powers.10
151204423SovietsRussian elected councils that originated as strike committees during the 1905 St. Petersburg disorders; they represented a form of local self-government that went on to become the primary unit of government in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The term was also used during the cold war to designate the Soviet Union.11
151204424Triple AlliancePre-World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.12
151204425Triple EntentePre-World War I alliance of England, France, and Russia.13

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