WWI Vocab Flashcards
Define Militarism
The policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army always prepared.
Define Triple Alliance
The military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years before World War I
What did the Triple Alliance become during WWI?
Central Powers
Define Triple Entente
A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years before WWI
What did the Triple Entente become during WWI?
Allies
Define Western Front
The region of northern France where the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.
Define the Schlieffen Plan
Germany’s military plan at the outbreak of WWI. German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.
Define Trench Warfare
Form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
Define Eastern Front
The region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.
Define Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The use of submarines to sink, without warning, any ship found in an enemy’s waters (neutral and passenger ships too)
Define Total War
A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.
Define Rationing
The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by governments during wartime when goods are in short supply.
Define Propaganda
Information or material spread to advance a cause or damage an opponent’s cause
Define Armistice
An agreement to stop fighting
Define the Fourteen Points
A series of proposals in which U.S. President Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after WWI.
