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Vocab. Ch 29 Sec. 1 - 2
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History
9th Grade
02/28/2013

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Militarism
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a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.
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Triple Alliance
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A union or association between three powers or states, in particular that made in 1668 between England, the Netherlands, and Sweden against France, and that in 1882 between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy against France and Russia
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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was the last German emperor and king of Prussia, ruling both the German empire and the kingdom of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 18 November 1918
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Triple Entente
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began to assume the nature of a more formal alliance as the prospect of war with the Central Powers became more likely, and formed the basis of the Allied powers in World War I
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Central Powers
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The alliance of Germany, Austria–Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria during World War I
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Allies
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A state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose, typically by treaty
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Western Front
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The zone of fighting in western Europe in World War I, in which the German army engaged the armies to its west, i.e., France, the UK (and its dominions), and, from 1917, the US For most of the war the front line stretched from the Vosges mountains in eastern France through Amiens to Ostend in Belgium
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Schlieffen Plan
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was the German General Staff's early 20th century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war where it might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east.
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Trench Warfare
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A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other
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Eastern Front
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In World war 1, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.
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