| A | B |
|---|
| militarism | glorifying war and preparing for it |
| Triple Alliance | military agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Emperor of Germany |
| Triple Entente | military agreement among Britain, France, and Russia |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's strategy for winning the war on two fronts |
| Allies | Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and United States of America |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire |
| trench warfare | fighting from rows dug in the battlefield |
| Western Front | Region of northern France where much fighting took place |
| Eastern Front | Region along German-Russian border where much fighting took place |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | using U-boats to sink any ship without warning |
| total war | war in which countries use all their resources for war |
| rationing | control of the amounts and kinds of goods people can have |
| propaganda | one-sided information designed to persuade |
| armistice | agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | President who proposed the Fourteen Points and represented the United States at Versailles |
| Georges Clemenceau | France's premier and delegate at Versailles |
| David Lloyd George | Britain's prime minister and delegate at Versailles |
| Fourteen Points | plan for a just and lasting peace |
| self-determination | allowing people to decide for themselves about what kind of government they want |
| Treaty of Versailles | agreement at the end of WWI between Germany and the Allied Powers |
| League of Nations | international group with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
| Lusitania | British Ocean liner sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915 |
