Marching toward war

Armistic

An agreement to stop fighting

Georges Clemenceau

An effective and almost dictator-like leader of France, who would not take defeat as an answer

League of Nations

An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; suggested in Wilson's Fourteen Points.

Schlieffen plan

Attack plan by Germans, proposed by Schliffen, lightning quick attack against France. Proposed to go through Belgium then attack France, Belgium resisted, other countries took up their aid, long fight, used trench warfare.

Triple entente

Did not bind Britain to fight with France and Russia

Treaty of Versailles

Ended WWI

Triple alliance

Germany Austriahungry and Italy joined and alliance called triple alliance

Militarism

Glorifying military power and keeping army prepared for war

Allies

Great Britain France and Russia with Italy and hungry

Propaganda

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

Kaiser Wilhelm 11

In 1892 became leader of Germany

Self-determination

The ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will

Central powers

The battle lines on one side of Germany and Austria Hungary

Eastern front

a stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border

Unrestricted submarine warfare

A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters

Fourteen points

A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.

Rationing

A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use

Western front

A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.

Woodrow Wilson

28th president

Total war

A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort

Trench warfare

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.