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militarism |
a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war |
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Triple Alliance |
a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy |
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Kaiser Wilhelm II |
ruler of Germany who forced Bismarck to resign |
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Triple Entente |
a military alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia |
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Central Powers |
the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
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Allies |
the nations of Great Britain, France and Russia, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
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Western Front |
the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other |
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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 |
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trench warfare |
a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield |
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Eastern Front |
the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians and Turks |
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unrestricted submarine warfare |
the use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in enemy waters |
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total war |
a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort |
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rationing |
the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy |
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propaganda |
information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause |
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armistice |
an agreement to stop fighting |
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proletariat |
the group of workers that would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia |
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Bolsheviks |
a group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917 |
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Lenin |
leader of the Bolsheviks |
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Rasputin |
a self-described "holy man" who claimed to have magical healing powers |
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provisional government |
a temporary government |
