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.
