| A | B |
|---|
| Nationalism | Feeling that your countries culture, language or nation is better than all other countries |
| Militarism | Policy of aggressive military preparedness |
| Balance of Power | Situation in which the strength of rivals is nearly even |
| Triple Alliance | Treaty between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy |
| Triple Entente | Treaty between France, Russia and England |
| Mobilize | Preparing for war |
| Central Powers | Another name for the Triple Alliance |
| Allied Powers | Another name for the Triple Entente |
| Trench Warfare | Type of fighting in WWI in which the soldiers fought from deep ditches |
| No-Mans-Land | Areas between the trenches |
| Stalemate | Situation in which neither army can win a decisive battle |
| U-boats | German submarines |
| Lusitania | British passenger ship that was sunk by a u-boat |
| Sussex Pledge | Promise by Germany not to shoot down any more passenger ships |
| Zimmerman Note | Telegram from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance between the two countries to help Mexico gain back the SW states |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | Person whose assassination led to the beginning of WWI |
| Germany | The first country to attack France |
| Belgium | Neutral country that Germany went through to attack France |
| Italy | Part of the Triple Alliance that did not join WWI at the beginning of the fighting |
| Wilson | The U.S. president during WWI |
| Great Britain | Allied country that joined the war to help France after Germany attacked through Belgium |
| Russia | Allied country that declared war on Austria-Hungary after Serbia was attacked |
| France | Allied country that declared war on Germany because of their alliance with Russia |
| Austria-Hungary | Central Power country that declared war on Serbia after their archduke was assassinated |
| Nuetral | The position of the U.S. at the beginning of WWI |
