WWI Vocab

2. Nicholas Leader of Russia until 1917
4. Entente Alliances between Great Britain, France and Russia during WW1, also known as the Allied powers
5. Combat vehicle used for the first time in WW1
7. Keeping a large army and glorifying war
11. Balkans The region of Europe nicknamed “The Powder Keg” because it was so volatile.
13. Front The region that became a bloody stalemate
14. Warship introduced by Germany that could submerge under water and used torpedoes
16. Government system of allowing only small amounts of items to be bought by the public
17. Warfare A battle Strategy in which soldiers fought in deep pits that were dug deep in the earth
18. Gas New weapon that caused choking, blindness, and death

1. Alliance World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, also known as the Central Powers
3. One sided information used by a government to persuade the public in its cause
6. An agreement to stop fighting by both sides in a war
8. Plan Germanys battle strategy that called for a quick defeat of France, then attacking Russia in the East
9. Wilhelm I Ruler of Germany during World War 1
10. note sent from Germany to Mexico in hopes that Mexico would ally itself with Germany against the United States
12. Front The stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border
15. Wilson American President who kept us out of WW1 until 1917