| A | B |
|---|
| Triple Alliance | military alliance in GErmany Austria-Hungary and Italy |
| Triple Entente (friendship) | aliance linking Russian Empire, French Third Republic and United Kingdom & Ireland |
| Militarism | belief that a country should have a stong military |
| Armaments | Military weapons and equipment |
| Imperialism | expand a country's power and influence using diplomacy and force |
| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | archduke of Austria heir to Austria and Hungary, his assassination started the outbreak of WWI |
| Mobilization | getting troops and supplies in place and ready for war |
| Allies | a state or country cooperating with another for military purpose |
| Central Powers | Germany & allies (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria & Ottoman Empire) |
| Trench Warfare | warfare where the opposing troops fight from dug out ditches |
| Stalemate | a draw (tie) between 2 sides |
| U boats | German submarines |
| Ottoman Empire | present day Turkey, founded by Osman in 1300 & fell after WWI |
| Lusitania | British luxury ship sunk by German sub lead to US entering WWI |
| Armistice | An agreement for 2 opposing sides to stop fighting for a certain time (truce) |
| 14 Points | a statement given by President Woodrow Wilson decalring WWI is being fought for a moral cause and for postwar peace in Europe |
| League of Nations | intergovernmental organization founded as a sreult of Paris Peace COnference that ended WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | A peace treaty at the end of WWI ending was between Germany and Allied Powers signed June 28, 1919 |
| Paris Peace Conference | Meeting of Allied victors after WWI to set up peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. It took place in PAris and involved diplomats from more than 32 countries |
| Reparations | compensation for war damage by deafeted state ($ paid back for losses) |
| Self Determination | the process by which a county determines its own statehood adn forms its own allegiances and government |
| Demilitarized | to remove all military forces from an area |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th President of the United States - led the US in WWI and secured the formation of the League of Nations |
| Otto Von Bismarck | German statesman: first chancellor of hte modern German Empire 1871-90 |
| Balkans | a geographical region of Southeast Europe. The region takes it name from the Balkan Mountains that stretch from the east of Serbia to the Black Sea at the east of Bulgaria |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and teh Central powers that ended Russia's participation in WWI |
| Georce Clemenceau | French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles |
| Arthur Zimmerman | a German Foreign Secretary for the Zimmerman telegram which helped to draw the US into WWI against Germany |
| David Lloyd George | A British political leader - His negotiations produced the Treaty of Versailles |
| Western Front | the name applied ot the fightin zone in France where the British, French, Belgian and American armies fought Germany |
| Eastern Front | the front lines between Germany and Russia |
| Mustard Gas | an oily liquid used in chemical warfare. Its vapor causes blindness and burns. |
| Black Hand | Responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria |
| Gavrillo Princep | assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife in 1914 |
