WWI : Allies and Enemies Vocab

A region of northern Europe on the border between France and Germany, which was ceded to Germany after the Franco-Prussian War

• Proletariat

• Alsace and Lorraine

• Stalemate

• Entente

The working class

• Proletariat

• Alsace and Lorraine

• Stalemate

• Entente

A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other 

• Proletariat

• Alsace and Lorraine

• Stalemate

• Entente

A group of merchant ships protected by warships

• Armistice

• Lusitania

• Convoy

• Soviet

British liner torpedoed by a German submarine in May 1915 

• Armistice

• Lusitania

• Convoy

• Soviet

An agreement to end fighting in a war 

• Armistice

• Lusitania

• Convoy

• Entente

A council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917

• Proletariat

• Entente

• Zeppelin

• Soviet

A nonbinding agreement to follow common policies 

• Proletariat

• Entente

• Zeppelin

• Soviet

Also known as Lawrence of Arabia, was a British archaeologist, writer, and expert on Arabia who helped lead an Arab rebellion and guerilla war against the Ottoman Turks during World War I.  

• Zeppelin

• T. E. Lawrence

• Alsace and Lorraine

• Mandate

German submarine

• Zeppelin

• Propaganda

• U-boat

• Conscription