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Triple Alliance
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A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the year preceeding World War I
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Triple Entente
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A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I
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Militarism
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A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.
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Trench Warfare
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A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
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Schlieffen Plan
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Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which Germany's troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
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The use of submarines to sink - without warning - any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in enemy's water.
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Propaganda
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Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause.
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Total War
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A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to war effort.
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Armistice
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An agreement to stop fighting
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Fourteen Points
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A series or proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I
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Treaty of Versailles
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The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers 12. after World War I
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League of Nations
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An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations.
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Proletariat
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In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia.
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Bolsheviks
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A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November of 1917.
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Provisional Government
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A temporary government.
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