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War of attrition |
War based on wearing down the other side by constant attacks and heavy losses |
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Trench warfare |
Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire |
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Mobilization |
Process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war |
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Conscription |
Military draft |
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Propaganda |
Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause |
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Leon Trotsky |
Head of the Petrograd soviets; revolutionary |
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Gavrilo Princip |
19 year old Bosnian Serb who succeeded in shooting both the Archduke and his wife |
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Woodrow Wilson |
United States president during World War I |
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Czar Nicholas II |
Russian leader; ordered partial mobilization of Russian army against Austria-Hungary |
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Alexandra |
Key figure in Russia who was influenced by Grigori Rasputin |
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Archduke France Ferdinand |
Heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary; was shot by Gavrilo Princip |
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Emperor William II |
German who pledged Germany's full support to Austria-Hungary |
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Alfred von Schlieffen |
German general who authored the von Schlieffen plan |
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Lawrence of Arabia |
British officer who encouraged Arab princes to rise against their overlords in 1917 |
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Admiral Holtzendorff |
Urged the emperor that no American would land on the European continent |
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Grigori Rasputin |
Uneducated Siberian peasant who claimed to be a holy man |
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V. I. Lenin |
Leader of the Bolsheviks |
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Alexander Kerensky |
Head of the Russian provisional government after Nicholas II stepped down |
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Erick von Ludendorff |
Guided Germany military operations |
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Friedrich Ebert |
Leader of the new democratic republic of Germany after William II left |
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David Lloyd George |
Prime Minister of Great Britain |
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Georges Clemenceau |
Premier of France |