| A | B |
|---|
| nationalism | deep devotion to one's nation |
| militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war |
| chancellor | the chief minister of state in many European countries |
| dual alliance | a military alliance b/w Germany and Austria-Hungary |
| triple entente | a military alliance b/w Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceeding WWI |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | 1888-ruler of Germany. A proud and stubborn man. Army was his greatest pride. Wanted total power. Emperor of Germany. |
| Impulsive | inclined to act on a sudden feeling rather than thought |
| triple alliance | a military alliance b/w Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceeding WWI |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Central Powers | in WWI, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations taht fought on their side |
| Allies | in WWI, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| Western front | in WWI, the region of northern France where the forces of the allies and the central powers battled each other |
| intelligence | secret information, especially information about an enemy |
| trench warfare | a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
| Eastern front | the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks |
| blockade | the forced closing off of a city or other area to traffic and communication through the use of ships or land forces |
| 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 |
| atrocity | an act of extreme cruelty or violence |
| 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 damage an opponent's cause |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson | president of the US during WWI. 1918-Fourteen Points. Major player at the Paris Peace Conference (Represented US at Versailles) |
| Georges Clemenceau | France's premier and delegate at Versailles |
| David Lloyd George | Britain's Prime Minister and delegate at Versailles |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which US president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI |
| 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 WWI |
| League of Nations | an international organization formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
| reparations | money paid by a defeated nation to compensate for damage or injury during a war |
| abdicate | to formally give up a high office or responsibility |
