World War I Flashcards
World War I Alliance that included Great Britain, France, and Russia.
Triple Entente
Government system of allowing only small amounts of items to be bought.
rationing
Alliance that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Triple Alliance
This country belonged to the Central Powers during WWI.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
An agreement to stop fighting.
armistice
This country belonged to the Allied Powers in WWI.
Great Britain, France, Russia, United States (later)
The region of France that became a bloody stalemate.
Western Front
Germany’s battle strategy that called for a quick defeat of France, then attacking Russia in the east.
Schieffen Plan
Battle strategy in which soldiers fought from deep pits dug into the earth.
Trench warfare
Leader of Russia up until 1917.
Czar (or Tsar) Nicolas II
New warship introduced by Germany that used undersea torpedoes.
Submarine (U-boat)
Stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border.
Eastern Front
New weapon that caused choking, blindness, and death.
Poison Gas
This was sent to Mexico hoping it would ally itself with Germany against the US.
Zimmerman Note/ Telegram
The region of Europe called a “powder keg” because it was so volatile.
The Balkans
