WW1
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22 terms
English | German |
|---|---|
 militarism | keeping an army ready and glorifying it. |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungry, and Italy formed an alliance |
| Kaiser Wilhelm 2 | Ruler of Germany, made Bismark resign |
| Triple Entente | Britain made an alliance with France and Russia. Britian was not obligated to fight |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungry, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire |
| Allies | United Kingdom, France, Russian Empire, Italy, Japan |
| Schlieffen Plan | Battle strategy that attacked and defeated France in the west and then rushed East to fight Russia |
| Total War | Countries put in all of their resources to win the war |
| Woodrow Wilson | President of the U.S. Wilson set up a series of peace agreements call the Fourteen Points. Went to congress to initiate war |
| Georges Clemenceau | He was the French representative at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. He pushed for a revenge-based treaty at Versailles, hampering the 14 points. |
| Fourteen Points | planned out a plan for everlasting peace after WW1 |
| Self-Determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| Treaty of Versailles | the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans |
| League of Nations | an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations- formed becuase of the Treaty of Versailles |
| autocracy | a ruler has unlimited power and uses it poorly |
| Proletariat | the working class would rule the country |
| Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI. Willing to sacrifice everything |
| Lenin | Vladimir Ilyich. Leader of Bulsheviks |
| Provisional Government | A temporary government |
| Communist Party | a political party that actively advocates a communist form of government. Bulsheviks were renamed the Communist party after Karl Marx |
| Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953) |
| Totalitarianism | the principle of complete and unrestricted power in government |
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