WWI Vocabulary
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| 1. | entente | "friendship" agreement between France, England and Russia |
| 2. | annex | officially add a territory to a country |
| 3. | militarism | when a country "glorifies" its military might |
| 4. | Triple Alliance | military alliance between Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary |
| 5. | Triple Entente | "friendship" agreement between France, England, and Russia |
| 6. | ultimatum | "do this or else" statement |
| 7. | mobilize | get troops and equipment in place for war |
| 8. | aggressor | country that "starts" a war |
| 9. | neutrality | official policy of not supporting any side or country in a war |
| 10. | Schlieffen Plan | Germany's plan for fighting a two front war |
| 11. | Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| 12. | Allies | Britain, Russia, France, and later the U.S. |
| 13. | Western Front | the area of military action in France and Belgium; trenches |
| 14. | Battle of Marne | first major battle of WWI; France stopped German advance here |
| 15. | No-man's land | deadly area between enemy trenches |
| 16. | trenches | style of fighting on the Western Front in WWI |
| 17. | U-boat | Germany's "underwater boat"; submarine |
| 18. | total war | when a war consumes a country's economy and social lives |
| 19. | rationing | when the government determines how much goods you can have |
| 20. | propaganda | government sponsored information; usually to sway public opinion |
| 21. | convoy | U.S. strategy for protecting allied shipping against U-boat attacks |
| 22. | abdicate | when a monarch "gives up" his or her throne |
| 23. | armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| 24. | Lusitania | British cruise ship sunk by Germany in 1915; 129 Americans killed |
| 25. | self-determination | the process by which a country determines its own statehood and forms its own allegiances and government |
| 26. | Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after the war |
| 27. | League of Nations | permanent meeting of member nations to prevent war |
| 28. | reparations | money owed to another country for war damages |
| 29. | Big Three | U.S. (Wilson); France (Clemenceau); England (George) |
| 30. | mandate | order that some areas be controlled by the United Nations |
| 31. | Zimmerman Note | Germany promised Mexico some U.S. territory if Mexico would declare war against the U.S. |
| 32. | William II | last "Kaiser" or king of Germany; abdicated at the end of the war |
| 33. | Woodrow Wilson | President of the U.S. during WWI |
| 34. | Franz Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria-Hungary; his assassination in 1914 would start WWI |