AP Chapter 15
Across
- 2. Pre-WWI alliance of German, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
- 4. Revolution in this country was marked by a complicated series of revolts aimed at reducing social inequality.
- 6. A line of fortifications and trenches, stretching from Switzerland to the North Sea.
- 8. This system demanded the allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victors of WWI.
- 10. A statement from Britain’s foreign secretary favoring the establishment of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine.
- 13. Chinese nationalist revolutionary (and leader of the Guomindang party) attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement.
- 14. After the war this epidemic infected almost everyone on earth, killing about 20 million world-wide.
- 15. In this 1894 war, China and Japan fought over Korea with Japan being victorious.
- 16. Pre-WWI alliance of Britain, France, and Russia.
- 18. This declining empire decided to join the Central Powers in order to take land from Russia.
- 19. Japan repressed this rebellion, a movement against foreigners in the late Qing era.
- 21. Trench warfare led to this... essentially a tie where neither side is able to dislodge the other from their positions.
- 22. President Wilson’s peace plan presented in January, 1918.
Down
- 1. Leader of the Bolsheviks.
- 3. Wilson’s proposition of a world organization to safeguard peace; Congress would not let the US join for fear of being dragged into a future European conflict.
- 5. The treaty imposed on Germany at the end of WWI.
- 7. Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in this Bosnian city in 1914, starting a series of war declaration which led to the first world war.
- 9. This Chinese empress supported anti-foreign movements and resisted reforms of government and armed forces
- 11. This group overthrew Sultan Abdul Hamid II and hired a German general to modernize their armed forces.
- 12. Christian-inspired rural rebellion that threatened to topple the Qing Empire.
- 17. A radical Russian Marxist political party who seized power in 1917.
- 20. This US president tried to keep the US out of the WWI, but German actions such as the sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman Note made it impossible.