Chapter 25 (WW1) Flashcards
The alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia prior to and during the First World War.
Triple Entente
A war in which distinctions between the soldiers on the battlefield and civilians at home are blurred, and where the government plans and controls economic and social life in order to supply the armies at the front with supplies and weapons.
total war
Lenin’s radical, revolutionary arm of the Russian party of Marxist socialism, which successfully installed a dictatorial socialist regime in Russia.
Bolsheviks
A type of fighting used in World War I behind rows of trenches, mines, and barbed wire; the cost in lives was staggering and the gains in territory minimal.
trench warfare
A huge, fluctuating mass meeting of two to three thousand workers, soldiers, and socialist intellectuals modeled on the revolutionary soviets of 1905.
Petrograd Soviet
Peace treaty signed in March 1918 between the Central Powers and Russia that ended Russian participation in World War I and ceded Russian territories containing a third of the Russian Empire’s population to the Central Powers.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The 1919 peace settlement that ended war between Germany and the Allied powers.
Treaty of Versailles
An article in the Treaty of Versailles that declared that Germany (with Austria) was solely responsible for the war and had to pay reparations equal to all civilian damages caused by the fighting.
war guilt clause
Was a secret military society formed in 1901 by officers in the Army of the Kingdom of Serbia, this group is also responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Black Hand
It consisted of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire
Central Powers
The battle that marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One.
Battle of the Marne
An organisation set up in Germany to facilitate access to raw materials for the German military.
The War Raw Materials Board
Information, especially of a biased nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
Propaganda
The Lusitania
Armenian Genocide
