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| A prewar alliance that united Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
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| A prewar alliance between Russia, France, and Britain |
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| Term for alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary in WWI |
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| Term for Alliance of Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia in WWI |
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| When one country dominates another politically, economically, and culturally |
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| When one country is motivated by a belief of cultural unity. |
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| Archduke of Austria-Hungary whose assassination led to WWI |
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| Young Serbian who assassinated Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie |
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| City in Bosnia, site of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand |
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| A German military plan, Germany would attack France before attacking Russia. The goal was to prevent fighting a two-round war |
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| Taking no side in a conflict |
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| War fought from dug-out fortified ditches |
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| Series of trenches dug by both the Allied Powers and Central Powers in Northern France, resulting in a deadlock |
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| Information designed to influence people's opinions |
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| War that requires total use of all a society's resources |
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| Allied effort to destroy the Central Powers forts that lined the Dardanelles |
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| The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
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| German submarines that threatened ships in the waters around Britain |
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| German diplomat's secret message to Mexico urging an attack on the United States |
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| Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace, proposed in 1918 |
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| Treaty that ended World War I, and severely punished Germany |
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| Organization of nations created with the hope of ending future wars |
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| Statement issued by Britain in 1917, favoring the creation of a Jewish state in Palistine |
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| Secret terrorist organization founded in 1911 to 'promote' the cause of a greater Serbia. The Black Hand had close links to the Serbian government and trained Gavrilo Princip, killer of Archduke Ferdinand |
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| A phrase coined by General Falkenhayne, as the stated goal of the Battle of Verdun. The goal was to kill as many Frenchmen as possible in order to get France's surrender |
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| United states President during WWI |
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| French Prime Minister during WWI |
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| British Prime Minister during 1916-1921 |
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| Italian Prime Minister during 1917-1919 |
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| Last Emperor of Russia. He was overthrown by the Russian Revolution |
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| Refers to the payments and transfers of property and equipment that Germany was forced to make under the Treaty of Versaille |
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| The barren territory that lay between the opposing Allied and German trenches on the Western Front |
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| Part of the Treaty of Versailles, forcing Germany to say that they alone caused World War I - and that it was therefore right and proper that they had to pay reperations |
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| British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 |
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| Term given to the act of climbing out of a trench and going forward into battle |
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| Term used to describe deadlock on the Western Front during WWI |
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| One of the causes of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. National groups in Europe should, wherever possible, be given their ndependence |
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| The four most influential people in drafting the Treaty of Versailles: Wilson, Clemenceau, George, and Orlando |
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