| A | B |
|---|
| militarism | glorifying war and preparing for it |
| Triple Alliance | a military agreement between Germany, Autria-Hungary and Italy |
| Kaiser Wilheim II | Emperor of Germany |
| Triple Entente | a military agreement between Britain, France and Russia |
| Schieffen Plan | Germany's plan to figh a two front war; name after the General |
| Allies | Great Britain, Franc Russia and later the U.S.A. |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and others that fought with them |
| trench warfare | fighting from trenches dug in the battlefields |
| Western Front | region in norther France and Belgium where most of the fighting of WWI took place |
| Eastern Front | region between Germany and Russia where fighting took place |
| total war | war in which countries uss all their resources for the war |
| rationing | controling the amounts and kind of goods people may buy |
| propaganda | one-sided information designed to persuade |
| armistice | agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the U.S during the war |
| Georges Clemenceau | France's premier and delagate at Versailles |
| David Lloyd George | Britain's Prime Minister during the war and the meeting at Versailles |
| Treaty of Versailles | agreement at the end of WWI that punished Germany harshly |
| League of Nations | idea of W. Wilson, international group with goal of keeping peace |
| self-determination | right to organize a country/government through elections |
| Red Baron | flying ace of Germany, 80 kills |
| Eddie Rickenbacker | American flying ace |
| Gen. J.J. Pershing | leading American general during the war |
| Battle of Verdun | the bloodiest battle of the Western front |
| Battle of the Somme | bloody battle in which the Allies suffered 56,000 casualties on one day! |
| Balkens | region in southeastern Europe |
| Franz Ferdinand | Archduke of Austria-Hungary, assasinated by Serbian ultra-nationalist |
| Sopwith Camel | nickname for a Allied biplane durign the war |
| iron cross | symbol of the German military |
