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WW1 and WW2
Some answers for WW1 and WW2
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History
10th Grade
04/21/2019

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Term

all people and resources to the war effort

and imposing censorship of the press

Definition

Total war

Term

treaty between Germany and Russia that

allowed Germany to concentrate all of their

troops on the Western front (3 Words)

 

Definition
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Term

revolution in Russia which allowed for them

to make peace with Germany (2 Words)

 

Definition
Russian Revolution
Term

representatives from Britain, U.S., France

and Italy who wrote the Treaty of

Versailles (2 Words)

Definition
Big Four
Term

agreement to stop fighting

Definition
Armistice
Term

area in between two trenches of two fronts

(3 Words)

 

Definition
No mans land
Term

agreements or promises to defend and help

another country

 

Definition
Alliance
Term

 

treaty ending World War I (3 Words)

Definition

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The treaty of Versailles

 

 

Term

message from the Germany to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance (2 Words)

Definition
Zimmerman telegram
Term

 

Payments for war damage

 

Definition
Reparations
Term

Germany's plan for fighting France and Russia

Definition
Schlieffenplan
Term

 

 

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peace plan by President Wilson that called

 

                                                                                                                            

Definition
Fourteen points
Term

13    international assembly of nations: goal to keep peace among nations (3 Words)

 

Definition
League of nations
Term

war where one's enemy is worn down to the point of collapse by continuous losses in people, food and war weapons (3 Words)

 

Definition
war of attrition
Term

      building up armed forces, getting ready for war

 

             

Definition
                                                             Militarism
Term

13      having pride in your country, willing to defend it

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Nationalism
Term

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process by which a country determines its

 

own statehood and forms its own

 

allegiances and government

Definition

self-determination

Term

trying to build up an empire, by taking

control of weaker nations

 

Definition
Imperialism
Term

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deadlock in which neither side is able to

 

defeat the other

 

Definition
Stalemate
Term

groups of merchant ships surrounded by

military ships for protection

 

Definition
Convoys
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