The Great War Vocab

a truce or an agreement to end fighting

armistice

a payment made to the victor by the vanquished to cover war costs

reparation

psychological condition resulting from intense war exposure; aerial bombardment

shell shock

a member of the faction of Russian Social Democratic Workers’ Party, founded by Vladimir Lenin, renamed Communist Party after the 1917 revolution

bolshevik

a Russian council composed of representatives from workers and soldiers

soviet

a form of government that controls political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens

totalitarianism

military draft

conscription

the process of assembling troops and supplies; making them ready for war

mobilization

ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

propaganda

conflict involving complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting lives of citizens in waiting countries, even those remote from the battlefield

total war

having no restrictions or bounds

unrestricted

conflict based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses, such as World War I

war of attrition

directed toward the will or mind

psychological

to formally give up control of a country or state

abdiate

in World War I, government control of banks and most other industries, seizing of grain from peasants, and centralization of state administration under communist control

war communism