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Militarianism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
Four underlying causes of WWI
Machine guns
Poison gas
Armored tanks
Submarines
Four of the new tools of war
Armistice
An agreement to stop fighting
Eastern Front
The region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs barrle Germans, Austrians, and Turks
League of Nations
An international association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations
Propaganda
Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause
Rationing
The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply
Self-Determination
The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live
Schlieffen Plan
Germany's military plan at the outbreak of WWI, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move East to attack Russia
Total War
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort
Treaty of Varsailles
The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after WWI
Trench Warfare
A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger lines) found in an enemy's waters
Western Front
In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and Central Powers battled each other
Author
hlakiyama
ID
63575
Card Set
Chp. 13
Description
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Updated
2011-02-02T05:01:15Z
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