Chapter 8 Crossword
Across
- 3. created by President Wilson, headed by journalist George Creel, objective was to maximize national loyalty and support for WWI
- 5. treaty ending WWI that required Germany to pay huge war reparations and established the League of Nations
- 6. system in which each nation or alliance has equal strength; people believed that this could help avoid war
- 10. people who seek the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all private property
- 11. information designed to influence public opinion
- 14. British ship sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915
- 16. military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
- 17. created by President Wilson, this board mediated disputes between workers and management and set policies that improved working conditions
- 19. military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia
- 20. President Wilson's plan for organizing post-WWI Europe and for avoiding future wars
- 21. policy in which a nation avoids entanglement in foreign wars
Down
- 1. act which required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted into the armed forces
- 2. international body of nations formed in 1919 to prevent wars
- 4. the right of people to decide their own political status
- 7. pledge Germany issued which included a promise not to sink merchant vessels "without warning and without saving human lives"
- 8. bonds that American citizens bought that helped to pay for the costs of WWI
- 9. form of combat in which soldiers dug trenches, or deep ditches, to seek protection from enemy fire and to defend their positions
- 12. small submarines named after the German word unterserboot, which means "undersea boat"
- 13. telegram sent to a German official in Mexico before WWI; it proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico
- 15. expansion of arms and the policy of military preparedness
- 18. name given to the leaders of the Allied Powers who dominated the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 following the Allied victory in WWI