| A | B |
|---|
| militarism | glorification of the military |
| Alfred Nobel | Swedish inventor of dynamite, who financed a peace prize to be given annually |
| pan-slavism | a nationalism sponsored by Russia bringing all Slavic peoples together |
| Central Powers | an alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary |
| Allies | An alliance of France, Russia, and Britain |
| Bertha von Suttner | an Austrian baroness who worked for peace through her antiwar novel, first woman to win Nobel Peace prize, nickname "Peace Bertha" |
| ultimatum | A final set of demands sent to Serbia from Austria, when not met Austria declared war on Serbia |
| mobilize | begin the movement of preparing troops for war |
| neutrality | a policy of supporting neither side in a war |
| Francis Ferdinand | the archduke heir to the throne of Austria |
| Gavrilo Princip | a Bosnian youth who assasinated Archduke Ferdinand, igniting World War I |
| Black Hand | a terrorist group organized by Bosnian Serbs |
| Schlieffen Plan | a German plan to quickly defeat France by marching through neutral Belgium, so that Germany could concentrate on fighting Russia |
| Western Front | the side of the war fought to the west of Germany on the border of Belgium and France |
| No man's land | the small tract of land between the German and the French/Belgium trenches |
| total war | when all a country's resources are committed to war |
| propaganda | spreading ideas to promote your own cause or damage your opponent's cause |
| atrocity | a horrible act against innocent people |
| armistice | an agreement to end fighting |
| November 11, 1918 | World War I ended |
| Women's Land Army | In Britain, women took over growing crops and jobs to keep the ntaional economy going during the war |
| Edith Cavell | a British nurse who ran the Red Cross hospital in Belgium, shot by Germans for helping Allied prisoners escape |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | an agreement signed by Lenin and Germany ending the Russian involvement in World War I in early 1918 |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the U.S. who asked Congress to declare war on Germany in April 1917 |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's attempt to list peace terms to resolve the war |
| Reparations | Payment for war damage |
| mandate | territories governed by western powers |
| David Lloyd George | British Prime Minister during World War I |
| Georges Clemenceau | French leader during World War I |
| Treaty of Versailles | agreement the Allies forced Germany to sign, requiring Germany to take blame for the war and suffer severe financial loss |
| League of Nations | Wilson's idea for an international peace-keeping organization, the unsuccessful forerunner of the United Nations |
