WW1 Vocabulary

2. Military expeditions or patrols undertaken to gather information about an enemy or area, often involving observation and intelligence gathering.
4. Detention centers where people are confined, typically during wartime, based on their ethnicity, nationality, or political beliefs, often without due process.
5. A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of foreign countries.
8. The development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.
10. Individuals who refuse to perform military service on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.
12. A statute that grants a government extraordinary powers during times of war, invasion, or insurrection, often including the suspension of civil liberties.
14. Individuals or groups who seek to undermine or overthrow an established system or institution, often through clandestine or disruptive activities.
15. The remote areas of a country, away from the coast or the banks of major rivers.
18. A conflict in which a belligerent engages in the complete mobilization of all available resources and population.
19. German submarines used in World War I and World War II.
20. The right of women to vote and to stand for electoral office.
22. The fleet of ships that carry goods and passengers for commercial purposes; the personnel operating these ships.

1. Groups of vehicles, typically ships, traveling together for mutual protection, often used during wartime to safeguard against attack.
3. A British law enacted in 1931 that granted full legislative independence to the self-governing dominions of the British Empire (Canada, Australia, South Africa, etc.).
6. People who have been killed, wounded, captured, or are missing in a war or accident.
7. Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
9. Debt securities issued by a government to finance a war effort; citizens purchase these bonds as a patriotic act, and they are later redeemed with interest.
11. Supreme power or authority; the authority of a state to govern itself or another state.
13. Compulsory enlistment of people into military service.
15. The central region of a country or continent, often considered vital to its economic or political strength.
16. An event or period marking a turning point in a situation.
17. The contested armed frontier between lands controlled by Germany to the east and the Allied powers to the west during World War I.
21. Statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it.
23. Having the freedom to govern oneself or itself; self-governing; independent.