Unit 7 Vocabulary Honors World History

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Triple Alliance
A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the year preceeding World War I
Triple Entente
A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I
Militarism
A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.
Trench Warfare
A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
Schlieffen Plan
Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which Germany's troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The use of submarines to sink - without warning - any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in enemy's water.
Propaganda
Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause.
Total War
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to war effort.
Armistice
An agreement to stop fighting
Fourteen Points
A series or proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I
Treaty of Versailles
The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers 12. after World War I
League of Nations
An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations.
Proletariat
In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia.
Bolsheviks
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November of 1917.
Provisional Government
A temporary government.