Glosarry WWI Flashcards
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
Propaganda
Called for the German Army to make a vast encircling movement through Belgium into Northern France.
Schlieffen plan
Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in WWI
Trench Warfare
Was a theatre of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between the Russian empire and the Romania on one side and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Eastern Front
A war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses, such as WWI
War of Attrition
On May,1915, German forces sank the British ship Lusitania. About 1,100 civilians, including more than 100 Americans died. After strong protests from the U.S, the German government suspended unrestricted submarine warfare in September 1915 to avoid antagonizing the U.S further.
Luisianita sunk
A war that involved the complete mobilization of resources and people affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefield.
Total war
Truce or an agreement to end fighting .
Armistice
Basis for a peace settlement hat he believed justified the enormous military struggle being waged
Fourteen points
A payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover the costs of war
Reparations
Delegates met in Paris in early 1919 to determine the peace settlement.
Paris peace conference
Which declared that Germany and Austria were responsible for starting the war. The treaty ordered Germany to pay reparations ( financial compensations) for all the damages that the allied governments and their people had sustained as a result of the war.
War guilt clause
Germany had to reduce its army to 100,000 men, cut back its navy and eliminate its Air Force. Alsace and Lorraine, taken by the Germans from France in 1871, were returned.
Sections of eastern Germany were awarded to a new polish state.
Treaty of Versailles
Military draft
Conscription
The aggressive preparation of war
Militarism
