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337000120	Triple Alliance	Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry	0
337000121	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.	1
337000122	Archduke Franz Ferdinand	heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.	2
337000123	Gavrilo Princip	The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand	3
337000124	Central Powers	in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies	4
337000125	Isolationism	a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations	5
337000126	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	6
337000127	Allies	in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers	7
337000128	Balkin peninsula	Area disputed between Russia and Austria-Hungary	8
337000129	World War 1	a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the central powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918	9