World War I and Russian Revolution

Militarism

Glorification of the military

Mobilize

The process of assembling troops and supplies for war

Triple Alliance

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in 1882

Triple Entente

France, Great Britain, and Russia created in 1907

U-Boat

German submarine

T.E. Lawrence

British archaeologist, writer, and expert on Arabia who helped lead an Arab rebellion and guerilla war against the Ottoman Turks during World War I.

Convoy

Group of merchant ships protected by warships

Trench Warfare

On the Western Front, the warring armies burrowed into a vast system of trenches, stretching from the Swiss frontier to the English Channel. An underground network linked bunkers, communications trenches, and gun emplacements.

Armistice

Agreement to end fighting in a war

Fourteen Points

List of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918

Lusitania

British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915

Conscription

"The draft," which required all young men to be ready for military or other service

Total war

Channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort

Reparation

Payment for war damage or damage caused by imprisonment

Soviet

Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917

V.I. Lenin

Was a Russian communist revolutionary who led the Bolsheviks to victory in the Russian October Revolution.