Terms to Know

• Nationalism: The unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols.
• Militarism: Reliance on military strength.
• Imperialism: The extension of a nation´s power over other lands. 
• Alliance System: Is a formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes.
• Conscription: Military Draft
• Trenches: A long, narrow excavation in the ground, the earth from which is thrown up in front to serve as a shelter from enemy fire or attack.
• War of Attrition: A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses, such as.
• Soviets: A Russian council composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers.
• War Communism: In World War I Russian, government control of banks and most industries, the seizing of grain from peasants, and the centralization of state administration under Communist control.
• Reparations: Payment made to the victors by the vanquished to cover the costs of a war.
• Mandate: A nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations.
• Total War: A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from battlefields. 
• Armistice: A truce or agreement to end fighting.
• Propaganda: Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
• The Black Hand: Black Hand, a Serbian terrorist organization that wanted Bosnia to be free of Austria-Hungary and to become part of a large Serbian kingdom.Planned Economies: An economic system directed by the government agencies.