WWI-Russian Rev.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Alliance | formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense |
| Allied Powers | World War I alliance of Britain, France and Russia; later joined by the United States and others |
| Archduke Ferdinand | Heir to the Austrian throne, whose assassination in 1914 was the spark that started World War I |
| Armistice | mutual agreement to end fighting in a war |
| Bolsheviks | 1917 Russian revolutionary group who seized power in Russia during the October Revolution and founded the Soviet Union |
| Central Powers | World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire (later joined by Bulgaria) |
| Collective | Large farm owned and operated by workers as a group |
| Czar Nicholas Romanov II | The last absolute monarch of Russia who abdicated the throne and was murdered by communists |
| Fourteen Points | A list of American President Woodrow Wilson's terms for guaranteeing peace and resolving future wars |
| League of Nations | A group of more than 40 nations formed after World War I with the goal of settling problems through negotiation, not war |
| Mandate | After World War I, a territory that was administered by a western power |
| Militarism | Glorification of the military |
| Neutrality | Policy of supporting neither side in a war |
| No Man's Land | Empty land between opposing trench lines |
| Pacifism | Opposition to all war |
| "Powder Keg of Europe" | an area in Eastern Europe where any conflict may result in a war between several countries |
| Propaganda | Spreading of ideas and information to promote a certain cause or to damage an opposing cause |
| Rasputin | Russian peasant monk who was able to influence Russian politics by gaining the confidence of the Czarina |
| Reparations | Payment for war damages or war damages caused by imprisonment |
| Self-determination | Right of people to choose their own form of government |
| Soviet | Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917 |
| Stalemate | Deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |
| Total War | The channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort |
| Treaty of Versailles | The treaty that ended World War I, which blamed Germany for causing the war |
| Trench Warfare | Type of warfare where troops dig into the land and fight |
| Vladimir Lenin | First Communist leader of Russia, who promised "peace, bread and land" |
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