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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