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| Militarism | the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. |
| Alliances system | one of the main causes of World War One |
| Triple Entente vs. Triple Alliance | an informal understanding among Great Britain, France, and Russia based on a Franco-Russian military alliance (1894), an Anglo-French entente (1904), and an Anglo-Russian entente (1907). It was considered a counterbalance to the Triple Alliance but was terminated when the Bolsheviks came into control in Russia in 1917 |
| Nationalism | The strong belief that the interests of a particular nation-state are of primary importance |
| Imperialism | a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |
| Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand | On June 28, 1914, a teenage Serbian nationalist gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, as their motorcade maneuvered through the streets of Sarajevo. Next in line for the Austro-Hungarian throne, Ferdinand had not been particularly well liked in aristocratic circles |
| Gavrilo Princip | The man who started ww1 |
| Allied Powers vs. Central Powers | Allied Powers, also called Allies, those nations allied in opposition to the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey) in World War I or to the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) in World War II. |
| Trench warfare | a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other |
| Western Front | the name applied to the fighting zone in France and Flanders, where the British, French, Belgian and (towards the end of the war) 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 | two battles of World War I around the River Marne in north-east France. |
| War of attrition | military strategy in which a belligerent attempts to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in personnel and materiel. |
| 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. |
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