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  1. 3. Triple Alliance, Alliance among Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy at the end of the 19th century which formed a part of the European alliance system and balance of power prior to the First World War.
  2. 9. The freedom of people to decide under what form of government they wish to live.
  3. 12. The policy of establishing colonies away from the homeland & building an empire.
  4. 14. The belief that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote its interests.
  5. 15. Gold, Glory: The three main motives for European expansion during the late 19th century. God centers around social/cultural motives, Gold centers on economic motives, and Glory centers on political motives.
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  1. 1. Conference: A meeting held in 1884-1885 where European leaders decided how they would divide Africa & take possession of it, preventing war between European empires.
  2. 2. Expansion: The geographical growth by a nation or empire that is fueled by political, economic, and social factors.
  3. 4. Contraction: The loss of geographical regions that results from political, economic and social factors.
  4. 5. The process by which a country that was previously controlled by another nation becomes politically independent. This movement gained ground in the decades following the Second World War as overseas colonies gained independence from the European countries who controlled them.
  5. 6. Front, An area in Western Europe stretching from the English Channel to the border of Switzerland along which most of the fighting occurred during the First World War.
  6. 7. Warfare, A form of warfare characteristic to the First World War in which opposing armies fought from relatively static, elaborate systems of ditches dug into the ground. It became the dominant form of fighting on the Western Front from late 1914 until the final offensives of 1918, leading to a brutal stalemate and immense casualties.
  7. 8. A territory under full or partial control of another country.
  8. 10. Ferdinand, The heir to the throne of Austria Hungary who was assassinated in June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia. His death by a Serb nationalist was the spark which ignited the First World War.
  9. 11. Triple Entente, Alliance among France, Russia, and Great Britain in the early 20th century which formed a part of the European alliance system and balance of power prior to the First World War.
  10. 13. Having an intense feeling of pride in one's country or ethnicity.