World War I Vocab

World War I Vocabbulary

​Conscription

​A military draft

​Mobilization

process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war, consider an act of war in 1914

​Propaganda

​Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.

​Trench warfare

​A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

​War of attrition

​A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses

​Total war

​a war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people

​Planned Economies

​an economic system directed by government agencies

​Soviets

​A Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.

​War communism

​government control of banks and most industries in World War I Russia

​Armistice

​an agreement to stop fighting

​Reparation

​payment made to the victors by the vanquished to cover the cost of war

​Mandate

​a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations

​Vocabulary Practice

• ​Answer the following questions by correctly filling in the blank in each sentence using a vocabulary term.

• ​Spelling does count

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The practice of requiring young people to join the military which was followed by many nations before World War I was called

.

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Germany was required by the Treaty of Versailles to make payments called

to the nations that won the war.

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World War I involved a complete mobilization of resources and people that affected the lives of all citizens in the warring countries- a situation called

.

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The development of

baffled military leaders who had been trained to fight wars of movement.

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Councils of workers and soldiers called

challenged the provisional government established after Nicholas II stepped down. 

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World War I became a

, or a war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses.

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European nations set up

, or systems directed by government agencies to mobilize the entire resources of their nations.

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Before World War I, many Euopean nations completed the

of the military by assembling troops and supplies for war.

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is the term used to describe the Communists' centralization of control over its economy.