Mcauley World History Chapter 16
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
David Lloyd George | prime minister of Great Britain who wanted to make the Germans pay for the war |
Conscription | a military draft |
Lawrence of Arabia | urged princes in the Middle East to revolt against their Ottoman overlords |
Mandate | a nation officially governed by another nation on behalf of the league of Nations |
propaganda | the spread of ideas to influence public opinion for or against a cause |
self determination | the right of each people to have their own nation |
Leon Trotsky | head of the Petrograd soviet and, later, commissar of war |
war guilt clause | declared that Germany and Austria were responsible for starting WWI |
war of attrition | wearing the other side down with constant attacks |
League of Nations | world organization created at the Paris Peace Conference |
communists | new name for the Bolsheviks after they seized power |
Gavrilo Princip | assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sophia |
Erich Von Ludendorff | general who guided German military operations |
Archduke Francis Ferdinand | his assassination started WWI |
mobilization | assembling troops and supplies for war |
Central Powers | Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire |
Trench Warfare | kept the Western Front from moving north very much |
Allied Powers | Great Brittan, France, Italy, and Russia |
Grigori Rasputin | Siberian peasant who influenced Alexandra |
planned economies | system directed by government agencies in order to mobilize resources for the war effort |
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