Voc. World war 1

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Militarism	belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability.
Alliances system	government agreement.
Nationalism	extreme form of this, especially marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries.
Imperialism	policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
Assassination of Archduke Franz	Died june 28,1914 Austria- Hungarian throne, was assassinated in sarajevo.
Gavrilo Princip	Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife.
Allied Powers vs. Central Powers	denotes the countries who fought together against the central powers.
Trench warfare	solders made trenches in order to protect themselves.
Western Front	the American armies faced that of Germany.
No Man’s Land	disputed ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies.
Battle of the Marne	First World War battle fought from 5–12 September 1914.
War of attrition	a prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other by a series of small-scale actions.
Total War	a war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
Schlieffen Plan	a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries.
Sinking of the Lusitania	the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Zimmerman telegram	January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States.
Russian Revolution of 1917	The events destroyed the Tsarist autocracy. It helped create the Soviet Union.
Karl Marx & the Communist Manifesto	conjunction with Friedrich Engels, published "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848, which explains history as a class struggle between workers and owners.
treaty of Brest-Litovsk	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers.
Treaty of Versailles	was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1 .
Woodrow Wilson & The Fourteen Points	leader of this Progressive project, in particular with his critique of the separation of powers established by the Constitution.
Reparations	the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
League of Nations	January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War.
The Great Depression	island that comprises England, Scotland, and Wales, although the term is also used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom.
Weimar Republic	the democratic government founded in Germany following Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication near the end of War World I.

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