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