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62034073militarisma political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggresively to defend or promote national interests0
62034074reparationspayment for damages after a war1
62034075nationalismthe doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other2
62034076ultimatumfinal set of demands3
62034077propagandainformation that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause4
62034078Georges ClemenceauFrench statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929)5
62034079Western FrontIn WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.6
62034080Eastern Frontarea where other part of wars were fought.7
62034081StalinRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)8
62034082Triple AllianceAlliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry9
62034083Gavrilo PrincipAssassinates Ferdinand on June 28th, 191410
62034084Nicholas IIthe last czar of Russia who was forced to abdicate in 1917 by the Russian Revolution11
62034085Balkansa large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range12
62034086Schlieffen PlanAttack 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.13
62034087Triple EntenteAn alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI.14
62034088Francis Ferdinandarchduke of Austria and heir apparent to Francis Joseph I15
62034089Woodrow Wilson28th President of the United States16
62034090Versailles TreatyThe compromise after WW1, settled land and freedom disputes. Germany had to take full blame for the war in order for the treaty to pass, among other things. The US Senate rejected it.17
62034091Central Powersin World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies18
62034092Allied PowersGreat Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later the US19
62034093LeninRussian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)20

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