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History chapter 23
WW1
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Social Studies
9th Grade
02/28/2016

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What is another name for the Triple Entente?
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The Allied Powers
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What is another name for the Triple Alliance?
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The Central Powers
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Western Front
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Where Germans are fighting the French, the British, and Belgium
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Trench Warfare
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in the West, fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in World War 1
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Conscription
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a military draft
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mobilization
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the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war
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propaganda
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ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
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War of Attrition
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a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses
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Total War
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a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the life of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields
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Planned Economies
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systems directed by government agencies
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Soviets
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councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers
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War Communism
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in World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control
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Armistice
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a truce, an agreement to end the fighting
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Reparation
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vast German payment
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Mandate
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a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations
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