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9260214702 | Alliance | A union of two or more groups | 0 | |
9260214703 | Admiral Alfred von tirpitz | Saw a large navy as the legitimate mark of a great world power and as a source of pride and patriotic unity | 1 | |
9260214704 | Congress of Berlin | Called in 1878 by Bismarck to undermine Russian control in Bulgaria (& the Balkans generally) | 2 | |
9260214705 | Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. | 3 | |
9260214706 | Trench Warfare | Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire | 4 | |
9260214707 | Lusitania | American boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI | 5 | |
9260214708 | War materials board | Ration and distribute raw materials | 6 | |
9260214709 | Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort | 7 | |
9260214710 | The auxiliary service law | Required all males between 17-60 to work only at jobs considered critical to the war effort | 8 | |
9260214711 | Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | 9 | |
9260214712 | Easter Rebellion | Irish demand for independence in 1916, hoping to get it while British were occupied by the WW1. | 10 | |
9260214713 | George Clemenceau | pouncing on strikers &jailing w/out trial journalists &politicians who dare suggest a compromise peace w/Germany | 11 | |
9260214714 | Petrograd Soviet | the political party with whom the Provisional Government had to share power with | 12 | |
9260214715 | Army Order No. 1 | Order that took away power from Russian officers and gave it to soldiers | 13 | |
9260214716 | Vladimir Lenin | Leader Russia's Bolshevik movement. | 14 | |
9260214717 | Bolsheviks | A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 | 15 | |
9260214718 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | treaty between Russia and Germany that would end Russia's involvement in WWI in 1917 | 16 | |
9260214719 | Constituent Assembly | Russia's first free election parliament | 17 | |
9260214720 | War Communism | The political idea that applied the total war concept on a civil conflict | 18 | |
9260214721 | Cheka | Secret police set up by Lenin-arrested "enemies of the revolution". | 19 | |
9260214722 | League of Nations | An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace. | 20 | |
9260214723 | Treaty of Versailles | Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment. | 21 | |
9260214724 | Balfour Declaration | 1917, Britain's declaration of support for the foundation of a Jewish state or nation in Palestine. | 22 | |
9260214725 | Attaturk | Father of Turks; helped create a new republic | 23 |