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| mobilization | process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war |
| propaganda | ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause |
| trench warfare | fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire |
| war of attrition | a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses |
| total war | a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields |
| armistice | a truce, an agreement to end the fighting |
| reparations | payment made to the victors by the vanquished to cover the costs of a war |
| mandates | a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations |
| militarism | aggressive preparation for war |
| Tripple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy |
| von Schlieffen Plan | Germany's plan that called for a two front war. First take over Paris then head to Russia |
| war guilt clause | said that Germany and Austria were responsible for starting WW1 |
| Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Itlay, and Russia |
| Triple Entente | Great Britain, France, Russia |
| Backround Causes to the war | militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism |
| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | Heir to Austrian Hungarian throne who was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip (Serb) who was a member of the Black Hand |
| Central Powers | Bulgaria, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire |
| unrestricted warfare | using submarines to sink both military and civilian ships |
| Lusitania | British passenger ship that a German sub sank |
| Zimmerman Note | Jan. 19, 1917, Arthur Zimmermann, sent a coded telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico, Promising United States land if Mexico attacked the U.S. |
| 14 Points | Proposal by Wilson at the end of the war that reduced military forces and weapons in Germany leaving enough for domestic safety and ensuring the right of each people to have its own nation |
| Alliances | a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations. |
