US World War 1 Vocab
Across
- 2. Woodrow Wilson's speech before Congress it presented his plan for peace
- 6. it encouraged companies to use mass-production techniques to increase efficiency and also encouraged companies to eliminate waste by standardizing products
- 7. required men to register with the government in order to be randomly selected for military service
- 9. a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships back and forth across the Atlantic
- 11. type of fighting used on the Western Front in World War 1, involved digging into the ground to protect soldiers from enemy fire
- 15. large scale movement of African-Americans from the South to the North
- 17. A telegram from the German foreign minister that asked Mexico to ally with Germany and asked Mexico to start a war with the United States to regain control of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico
- 18. Britsh ship that was sunk of the coast of Ireland and killed 1,198 people including 128 Americans
- 19. nickname for American troops came from either the way they cleaned their white belts or the inexperience in modern warfare
- 21. provide a forum for nations to discuss and settle grievances without resorting to war
Down
- 1. forced Germany to admit sole responsibility for starting World War 1
- 3. first known as the Triple Entente made up of Britain, France, and Russia
- 4. the heir to the Austria empire killed by a Serbian nationalist
- 5. the development of armed forces and their use as a tool of diplomacy
- 8. a person who opposes warfare on moral grounds, pointing out that the bible says thou shall not kill
- 10. a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions
- 11. offically ended World War 1
- 12. war damages
- 13. first known as the Triple Alliance made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy and the Ottoman Empire
- 14. a barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire
- 16. truce that ended the war
- 20. German submarines