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May 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment

1.

-Propaganda: Ideas, facts, or rumors spread deliberately to further one’s cause or to damage an opposing cause. 

-War of attrition: Slow wearing down manner of welfare in which each side tries to outlast the other.

-Contraband:War materials supplied by a neutral nation to a belligerent one.

-Atrocities: Brutal crimes of war, often committed against civilians.

2.

-Central powers:World War I alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire. 

-Allied powers: Alliance that included Great Britain, France, Russia, the U.S, and other countries during WWI&II. 

-U-boats: German submarines used in WWI.

-Woodrow Wilson:The U.S president. He warmed Germany that the US would not tolerate another such incident.

-Arthur Zimmermann: A high official in the German foreign ministry. He secretely sent telegrams to Mexico proposing tan alliance between the countries and offered to help Mexico to regain its lost land. 

4.

a.The new technology change the way the war was fought because more weapons were being mass produced by efficient methods. While Britain has the greatest navy at that time, Germans used U-Boat,  submarines to attack British boat and caused an extensive loss to Allied shipping. It also gave them more advantage in the war and powerful when the Germans soon introduced poisoned gas.

b. The US declared the war proclaiming that ” the world must be made safe for democracy”. They were fighting for democratic ideals rather than other ideas of the war.

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