World War 1 - Global War
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- 4. The naval rank held by Maximilian von Spee, commander of the German East Asia Squadron during WWI.
- 6. This military corps, composed of forces from two southern hemisphere nations, played a prominent role in the Gallipoli Campaign.
- 8. German underwater vessel used in a controversial campaign to blockade the British Isles.
- 9. The American general who led U.S. forces in Europe during World War I.
- 11. Site of a failed Allied offensive aimed at weakening the Ottoman Empire by securing a route to Russia.
- 12. U.S. president who delivered the famous speech, "The world must be made safe for democracy," in calling for war.
- 15. The first name of the future Turkish leader who successfully defended Ottoman positions at Gallipoli.
- 17. The intercepted message that proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico, bringing the U.S. closer to war.
- 18. Peninsula in China where Japan and British forces targeted German colonial possessions in 1914.
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- 1. A narrow, crucial waterway that connects the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara, targeted during the Gallipoli Campaign.
- 2. This major European power provided naval and military support to Japan in the capture of Qingdao.
- 3. The type of submarine warfare resumed by Germany in 1917, targeting all vessels without prior warning.
- 4. The ocean where critical naval engagements between Allied merchant ships and German submarines occurred during WWI.
- 5. formation of ships that provided collective defense against submarine attacks, used by the Allies to protect trade routes.
- 7. The sinking of this British ocean liner provoked outrage and helped shift public opinion in the U.S. toward joining the war.
- 10. The colonial power that lost its East Asian stronghold to Japan during WWI.
- 13. This country seized German territories in East Asia as part of its effort to expand influence in the Pacific.
- 14. A German-controlled Chinese port city besieged by Japanese forces early in WWI.
- 16. The defining feature of WWI battlefield fortifications, particularly notorious in Gallipoli and on the Western Front.
- 19. Acronym for the American military force that entered the war in 1917.