WWI Vocab

Conscription

• Type of subscription

• Military draft

• Type of medicine used to cure trench foot

• Getting ready for war

Assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war

• Mobilization

• Militarism

• Imperialism

• Conscription

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for/against cause

• Yellow journalism

• War Persuasion

• Propaganda

• Forced opinion

Fighting from deep ditches protected by barbed wire

• Chemical Warfare

• Trench Warfare

• Air Warfare

• Naval Warfare

War of Attrition

• Fighting war from deep ditches

• When the opponent devotes all resources to war

• Fighting through heavy losses to succession

• Wearing down the opponent

Total War

• Fighting war from deep ditches

• Complete mobilization of resources and people

• Fighting through heavy losses to succession

• Wearing down the opponent

Systems directed by government agencies

• Planned governments

• Planned armies

• Planned economies

• Planned mandates

Councils composed of representatives from workers and soldiers

• Communism

• War Communism

• Bolsheviks

• Soviets

Government control of banks and most industries, seizing grain from peasants, and centralization of state administration

• War Communism

• Planned economies

• Planned governments

• War of Attrition

Agreement to end fighting

• Armistice

• Truce

• Tie

• Surrender