The great war
Across
- 1. murder (an important person) in a surprise attack for political or religious reasons.
- 7. a debt obligation issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in conjunction with the Federal Reserve
- 8. the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
- 9. a formal act by which one state announces existing or impending war activity against another.
- 14. (WIB)a United States government agency established on July 28, 1917, during World War I, to coordinate the purchase of war supplies between the War Department and the Navy Department.
- 17. conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
- 18. the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.
- 20. a fully automatic, rifled autoloading firearm designed for sustained direct fire with rifle cartridges.
Down
- 2. an agreement between two or more countries to help each other out and defend each other in times of war.
- 3. the expression or holding of opinions at variance with those previously, commonly, or officially held.
- 4. the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border
- 5. rights guaranteed by the Constitution
- 6. the system in which support is given only to countries whose beliefs are analogous to that of the nation.
- 10. the state of not supporting or helping either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartiality.
- 11. a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
- 12. a German submarine used in World War I or World War II.
- 13. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- 15. a type of combat in which the opposing sides attack, counterattack, and defend from relatively permanent systems of trenches dug into the ground.
- 16. a heavy armored fighting vehicle carrying guns and moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
- 19. a battle line between armies