Key terms (The causes of WW1) - History

alliance

a formal agreement or partnership between two or more countries promising to support and defend each other if one of them is attacked or goes to war

reserves

military troops, equipment, or supplies held back from active combat so they can be used later when needed

mobilise

to gather, organize, and prepare a nation's military forces and resources for active combat

annex

one country forcibly takes control of another country's land and permanently claim it as its own territory

Karl Pearson

British mathematician and eugenicist

Bethmann Hollweg

Chancellor of the German Empire from 1909 to 1917

militarism

The belief that a nation could only achieve its political and economic goals if it had a strong military.