World War 1 - Global War

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