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- allies
- two twentieth-century alliances against Germany and its partners. In WWI, the allies were primarily Britain, France, the US, Russia, and Italy. In WWII they were mainly the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union
- Central powers
- alliance of the central European great powers, Germany and Austria, from Bismark's time through World War I
- Social Darwinism
- application of Darwinian biological concepts like "survival of the fittest" to such social practices and institutions as economic competition, war, and imperialism
- Survival of the fittest
- Darwinian biological concept, also applied to society
- Modern world system
- Wallerstein's theory that Western imperial domination of the globe was primarily economic and that it divided the world into a prosperous Western "core" and an exploited non-Western "periphery"
- New imperialism
- second wave of imperialism, particularly between 1870-1914
- Total war
- modern wars, especially WWI and WWII, requiring the commitment of all citizens and resources to the conflict
- Old imperialism
- first wave of western overseas imperialism, from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries
- Western global Imperialism
- Unprecedented expansion of Western colonial holdings, economic power, and influence around the world between the fifteenth and the twentieth centuries
- Trench warfare
- static but brutal mode of fighting in WWI, with both sides dug into elaborate trench systems
- Versailles Treaty
- peace treaty between the allies and Germany following WWI; one of several treaties comprising the Peace of Paris in 1919
- Weimar Republic
- liberal German government established by the Weimar constitution and destroyed by Hitler in 1933