Vocabulary Choice Board

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Across
  1. 5. Military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory
  2. 6. A system in which one country controls other countries, often after defeating them in a war
  3. 7. The desire by a group of people who share the same ethnic group, culture, language, etc. to form an independent country
  4. 8. The belief that a country should have great military strength in order to be powerful
  5. 9. Conscription (of somebody) (into something) the practice of ordering people by law to join the armed forces
  6. 10. To show or prove that something is true
  7. 13. The state of not supporting either side in a disagreement, competition or war
Down
  1. 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. 2. A region of south-east Europe, including the countries to the south of the rivers Sava and Danube
  3. 3. Association between Great Britain, France, and Russia, the nucleus of the Allied Powers in World War I.
  4. 4. Holding or showing the belief that war and violence are always wrong
  5. 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.
  6. 12. A system of government of a country in which one person has complete power