World War I and the Russian Revolution Vocabulary (College Prep)

Prepare military forces for war

A strategy drawn up by Germany to avoid fighting a war on two fronts

Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist whohelped Lenin and built up the army

Area between trenches

The alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.

policy of supporting neither side in a war

Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. A major reason for WWI.

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

The alliance of France, Britain, Russia

A series of proposals in which President Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.

A group of revolutionary Russian Communists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917

policy of building up strong armed forces to prepare for war

A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea.

Leader Russia's Bolshevik movement; founder of the Soviet Union

Communist revolution aganst the Czar of Russia that started in 1917.

the last czar of Russia who was forced from the throne and executed in 1917

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishments.

A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort

A Communist nation, consisting of Russia and 14 other states, that existed from 1922 to 1991.

German submarine

American boat that was sunk by the German U-boats; made America consider entering WWI

A military draft