Section 1: The Road to World War I
Vocabulary:
Conscription: Military draft.
Mobilization: The process of putting together troops and supplies and making them ready for war.
Section 2: The War
Vocabulary:
Propaganda: Ideas spread to change public ideas for or against a cause.
Trench warfare: Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in World War I.
War of attrition: A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses, such as World War I.
Total war: A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people.
Planned economies: An economic system directed by government agencies.
Section 3: The Russian Revolution
Vocabulary:
Soviets: A Russian council composed of representatives from the works and soldiers.
War communism: In World War I Russia, government control of banks and most industries.