WWI Vocab

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Conscription

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Military draft

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Assembling troops and supplies for war

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Mobilization

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Ideas spread to influence public opinion for/against a cause

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Propaganda

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Fighting from deep ditches with barbed wire

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Trench Warfare

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War of Attrition

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Wearing down the opponent

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Total War

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Complete mobilization of resources and people

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Systems directed by government agencies

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Planned economies

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Councils of workers and soldiers

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Soviets

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Govt control of banks & industries, seizing grain, centralization of state admin

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War Communism

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Agreement to end fighting

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Armistice