Vocabulary Choice Board
Across
- 5. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory
- 6. A system in which one country controls other countries, often after defeating them in a war
- 7. The desire by a group of people who share the same ethnic group, culture, language, etc. to form an independent country
- 8. The belief that a country should have great military strength in order to be powerful
- 9. Conscription (of somebody) (into something) the practice of ordering people by law to join the armed forces
- 10. To show or prove that something is true
- 13. The state of not supporting either side in a disagreement, competition or war
Down
- 1. A UK-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the WW1 on May 7, 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.
- 2. A region of south-east Europe, including the countries to the south of the rivers Sava and Danube
- 3. Association between Great Britain, France, and Russia, the nucleus of the Allied Powers in World War I.
- 4. Holding or showing the belief that war and violence are always wrong
- 11. Secret agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been closely allied since 1879. 761 people survived out of the 1,266 passengers and 696 crew aboard, and 123 of the casualties were American citizens.
- 12. A system of government of a country in which one person has complete power