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Allies
Britain, France, and Russia- Later joined by Italy
Militarism
A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always
Self-determination
Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
Conscription
A military draft
Stalemate
A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible
Propaganda
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
Reparations
Payment for war damages
Lusitania
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128
Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
secret message from Germany to Mexico, threatening to
Total War
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war
ANZAC
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps
Gallipoli
A poorly planned and badly executed Allied campaign to capture the Turkish
Paris Peace Conference
The great rulers and countries excluding Germany and Russia met
Big Four
The Big Four were the four most important leaders, and the most important ones
Woodrow Wilson
28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership,
David Lloyd George
Britain’s prime minister at the end of World War I whose goal was to make
Vittorio Orlando
He was the Italian representative at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
Fourteen Points
A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a
League of Nations
an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Treaty that ended World War I - most important part was the
Weimar Republic
German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German
Trench Warfare
A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches
deficit spending
Government practice of spending more than it takes in from taxes
Collectivize
bring under central government control