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| Militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
| Triple Allaince | a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary-, and Italy in the years preceding World War I. |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | ruler of Germany who forced the previous ruler Bismarck to resign. |
| Triple Entente | a military alliance betwen Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. |
| Central Powers | in World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side. |
| Allies | in World WAr I, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side; also, the group of nations including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United Staes that opposed the Axis Powers in World War II. |
| Western Front | In World war I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other. |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia. |
| Trench Warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
| Eastern Front | in World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks. |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters. |
| Total War | a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Rationing | the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply. |
| Propaganda | information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents's cause. |
| Armistice | an agreement to stop fighting. |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the United States |
| Georges Clemenceau | President of France |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. |
| Self-Determination | the freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live. |
| Treaty of Versailles | the peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I. |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations. |
