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- Total War
- When the entirety of a country's resources is directed towards war.
- Balance-of-Power/Congress of Vienna
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A situation in which peace is ensured by equilibrium of
alliances between major powers that check any move toward hegemony. - Woodrow Wilson
- President of United States - US influence on treaty of versailles (not really)
- Nation
- A group that shares a unique history, language, and religion, customs, art, ect.
- Submerged Nation
- A Nation that Struggles to gain their national independence.
- War Materiel
- war in which the fighting side with the most supplies and materials has advantage
- Aggressive Nationalism
- A blind desire to make one country greater or stronger entirely regardless of the rights or wishes of other nations.
- Schlieffen Plan
- Germany's plan devised to prevent a two-front war. The plan consisted of Germany invading Belgium in hope of racing throught the Belgium-France border and capturing Paris. Once this was to be completed, German armies were to travel by rail accross Germany to the Russian border, where the would fight.
- Conflict
- A state which is fought over
- Real-Politik
- Putting your countries needs before those of other countries--even if it means avoiding a commitment
- Lusitania
- A passenger ship, which on route to Britain, from the US, fell victim to german unrestricted submarine warfare.
- Bolsheviks
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Members of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party
that adopted Lenin's theses on party organization in 1903. - Self Determination
- Gives Nations the righ to decide their own destiny.
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Nation State - A human-made territorial political units that holds sovereignty, the ability to make laws and impose punishment, includes death over its people.
- David Lloyd George
- Prime Minister of Great Britain who plays a main role in the creation of the treaty of versailles
- League of Nations
- A world organization set up in 1919 to prevent outbreaks of other wars by use of collective security
- Successor State
- Those nations that were created out of the collapse of Russia, Germany, Astro-Hungry and Turkish Empire after WW1. Poland is an example of a nation created.
- Collective Security
- an attack against one is an attack against all.
- Georges Clemenceau
- President of France - france's influence on the treaty of Versailles.
- Tsar
- A male monarch or emperor who ruled Russia.