World War 1 Vocab by Jayan Patel

Alexander Kerensky

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head of the Russian provisional government and fatefully decided to keep Russia involved in the war in order to preserve honor.

Allied Powers

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term for Great Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia

Alsace and Lorraine

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taken by the Germans from France in 1871, returned to France at end of war.

Armistice

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Truce

Balfour Declaration

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statement issued by Britain in 1917 favoring the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine

Balkan Crisis

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1908-1913 Austria-Hungary and Russia rivaled one another for influence in the religion

Battle of Masurian Lakes

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September 15, Germans defeat Russians; Russians no longer a threat to German territory.

Battle of Tannenburg

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August 30, Russian army decisively defeated Germans at the beginning of the war.

Battle of Verdun

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battle in which Germany tried to kill as many French soldiers as possible, believing the French could not bear to see this historic city captured

Bolsheviks

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Marxist group that sought to lead a revolution against the Czar's government.

Central Powers

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term for Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War 1

Conscription

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Military Draft

David Lloyd George

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prime minister of Great Britain at the end of the war

First Battle of Marne

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September 6-10 where German advance was halted a short distance from Paris; trench warfare set in.

Fourteen Points

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Woodrow Wilsons plan for world peace proposed in 1918

France Ferdinand

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archduke of Austria-Hungary whose assassination led to World War 1

Gallipoli Campaign

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Allied effort to destroy the Central Powers' guns and forts that lined the Dardanelles so they could get supplies to Russians; huge failure for the allies.

Gavrilo Princip

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young Serbian who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie.

Genocide

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the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.

Georges Clemenceau

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premier of France

Lawrence of Arabia

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British officer in the Middle East; urged Arab princes to revolt against their Ottoman overlords; able to destroy Ottoman Empire in the Middle East in 1918.

League of Nations

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organization of nations created with the hope of ending future wars

Leon Trotsky

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Top Bolshevik official who negotiated for peace with the Central Powers; responsible for the strict discipline of the Red Army

Mandate

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a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations

Marxism Leninism

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Another term for Bolshevism

Mobilization

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Process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war

Neutral

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taking no side in a conflict

planned economies

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in order to mobilize all the resources of their nations for the war effort, systems were put in place directed by government agencies in many of the countries involved.

propaganda

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information designed to influence people's opinions.

Reparations

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payments to cover the cost of war

Schliefen Plan

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Germans hopes fro a quick end to the war; and soldiers; largely made up of socialists and represented more radical interests of lower classes.

Soviets

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councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers; largely made up of socialists and represented more radical interests of lower classes.

Total War

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war that requires the use of all of society's resources and people.

Treaty of Versailles

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treaty that ended World War 1 and punished Germany severely.

Trench Warfare

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war fought from trenches

Triple Alliance

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1882 partnership that untied Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Triple Entente

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1907 alliance between France, Russia, and Great Britain

U-Boats

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German subs that threatened ships in the waters around Great Britain

War Communism

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use to ensure regular supplies to Red Army; government control banks and most industries, seizing of grain from peasants, and centralization of state

War of Attrition

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a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses.

Western Front

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series of trenches dug by both the Allied Powers and Central Powers in northern France, resulting in a deadlock.

Woodrow Wilson

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United States president during World War 1

Zimmermann Note

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German diplomat's secret message to Mexico urging an attack on the United States