336990308 | Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry. | |
336990309 | Triple Entente | Russia, France, Great Britain. | |
336990310 | 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. | |
336990311 | Isolationism | A policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations. | |
336990312 | Zimmermann Telegram | The British intercepted a telegram from the German government to the Mexican government offering German support if Mexico declared war against the US; offered to return land Mexico lost the US. | |
336990313 | Fourteen Points | The war aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace; called for self-determination, freedom of the seas, free trade, end to secret agreements, reduction of arms and a league of nations. | |
336990314 | League of Nations | An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations. | |
336990315 | Soviets | Councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers. | |
336990316 | Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI. | |
336990317 | April Theses | Demanded peace, land for peasants, and power to the soviets. | |
336990318 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Treaty in which Russia lost substantial territory to the Germans. This ended Russian participation in the war. | |
336990319 | Red Army | Military organization constructed under leadership of Leon Trotsky. | |
336990320 | Ataturk | "Father of the Turks" who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize Turkey as well as separate religion and government. | |
336990321 | New Economic Policy | Lenin's economy reform that re-established economic freedom in an attempt to build agriculture and industry. | |
336990322 | 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. | |
336990323 | Collectivization | The organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism. | |
336990324 | Weimar Republic | Was the democratic government which ruled over Germany form 1919 to 1933. Was Germany's first democracy and it failed miserably. It had leaders such as Stresseman and Hindenburg. | |
336990325 | National Socialist Party | (Nazi Party) was a far-right, racist political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. | |
336990326 | Fascism | A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition. | |
336990327 | Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945). | |
336990328 | Rhineland | A region west of the Rhine river. | |
336990329 | Appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. | |
336990330 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | A secret agreement between the Germans and the Russians that said that they would not attack each other. |
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