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| Question | Answer |
| Militarism | belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability. |
| Alliances system | government agreement. |
| Nationalism | extreme form of this, especially marked by a feeling of superiority over other countries. |
| Imperialism | policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force. |
| Assassination of Archduke Franz | Died june 28,1914 Austria- Hungarian throne, was assassinated in sarajevo. |
| Gavrilo Princip | Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife. |
| Allied Powers vs. Central Powers | denotes the countries who fought together against the central powers. |
| Trench warfare | solders made trenches in order to protect themselves. |
| Western Front | 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 | First World War battle fought from 5–12 September 1914. |
| War of attrition | a prolonged war or period of conflict during which each side seeks to gradually wear out the other by a series of small-scale actions. |
| 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. |
| Schlieffen Plan | a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries. |
| Sinking of the Lusitania | the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| Zimmerman telegram | January, 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the event of the United States. |
| Russian Revolution of 1917 | The events destroyed the Tsarist autocracy. It helped create the Soviet Union. |
| Karl Marx & the Communist Manifesto | conjunction with Friedrich Engels, published "The Communist Manifesto" in 1848, which explains history as a class struggle between workers and owners. |
| treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers. |
| Treaty of Versailles | was one of the peace treaties at the end of World War 1 . |
| Woodrow Wilson & The Fourteen Points | leader of this Progressive project, in particular with his critique of the separation of powers established by the Constitution. |
| Reparations | the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. |
| League of Nations | January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. |
| The Great Depression | island that comprises England, Scotland, and Wales, although the term is also used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom. |
| Weimar Republic | the democratic government founded in Germany following Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication near the end of War World I. |
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