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Chapter 26
Term | Definition |
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trench warfare | war fought from trenches |
total war | war that requires he use of all of society's resources |
propaganda | information designed to influence people's opinions |
Battle of Verdun | battle in which Germany tried to kill as many French soldiers as possible, believing the French could not bear to see this historic city captured |
Gallipoli Campaign | Allied effort to destroy the Central Powers' guns and forts that lined the Dardanelles |
genocide | the deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
Bolsheviks | Marxist group that sought to lead a revolution against the Czar's government |
Grigory Rasputin | self-proclaimed holy man and healer, adviser to Czarina Alexandra |
Marxism-Leninism | another term for Bolshevism |
Leon Trotsky | top Bolshevik official who negotiated for peace with the Central Powers |
New Economic Plan | 1921 plan that permitted some capitalist activity in Russia in order to increase food production |
Woodrow Wilson | United States President during World War I |
U-boats | German submarines that threatened ships in the waters around Great Britain |
Zimmerman Note | German diplomat's secret message to Mexico urging an attack on the United State |
armistice | truce |
Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's plan for world peace, proposed in 1918 |
Treaty of Versailles | treaty that ended World War I and punished |
League of Nations | organization of nations created with the hope of ending future wars |
mandates | territories to be ruled by European powers |
Balfour Declaration | statement issued by Britain in 1917 favoring the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine |
Triple Alliance |