WW1
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- Conscientious Objector
- a person who refuses on moral grounds, to participate in warfare.
- Trench Warfare
- military operations in which the opposing forces attack from systems of fortified ditched rather than an open battlefield.
- Triple Entente
- Great Britain, France, and Russia
- Triple Alliance
- Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry
- Mustard Gas
- yellow-green chlorine fog that sickened, suffocated, burned, and blinded its victims
- Wilson
- 28th President of the United States, led the United States in World War I and secured the formation of the League of Nations
- Shell Shock
- a mental disorder caused by stress of active warfare
- Schleffen Plan
- Plan that helped Germany invade Belgium; called for a holding action against Russia, combined with a quick drive through Belgium to Paris; after France had fallen, the two German armies would defeat Russia
- Airplanes in WW1
- Airplanes were one of the newest weapons of the time and helped tremendously by giving another form of attack.
- Zimmerman Note
- a message sent in 1917 by the German foreign minister to the German ambassador in Mexico, proposing German-Mexiacan Alliance and promising to help Mexico regain Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona if the U.S. entered WW1
- Francis Ferdinand
- heir to the Austrian throne, visited the Bosnian Capital, Sarajevp. Was shot by Princip
- USS Maine
- Ship that explodes off the coast of Cuba in Havana harbor and helps contribute to the start of the Spanish-American War
- Lusitania
- a british passenger ship that was sunk by a german U-boat in 1915
- Treaty of Versailles
- the 1919 peace treaty at the end of ww1 which established new nations, borders, and war reperations
- Scab
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- Militarism
- the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool for diplomacy
- Imperialism
- when the government exetes influence on other people
- Civilian
- person who is not enrolled in any of the armed forces