World War 1

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Across
  1. 2. War / The mechanized mass destruction of enemy combatants, grew ever more deadly.
  2. 3. war /economies, and populations of participating nations to an extent never seen before in history
  3. 4. Front / the main theatre of war during the First World War.
  4. 5. Entente /the nucleus of the Allied Powers
  5. 6. used to sink 5,000 ships measuring more than 13 million gross register tons during the war.
  6. 11. Treaty / levied on the Central Powers after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs.
  7. 12. Warfare / long, deep ditches dug as protective defenses
  8. 15. The rest of the world conducted the war with each other.
  9. 17. Points / the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land.
  10. 19. Declaration /a statement issued by the British government in 1917
  11. 20. Ferdinand /was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary
  12. 21. Alliance /A secret agreement between Germany Austria-Hungary, and Italy
  13. 22. Princip /assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the Archduke's wife, Sophie
  14. 23. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, an event that led directly to the outbreak
  15. 24. note / was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917
  16. 26. proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I again.
  17. 27. Wilson / leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States.
Down
  1. 1. all the national parties in the Socialist International/ supported their respective governments in the war crisis
  2. 7. Powers / formally linked by the Treaty of London of September 5, 1914.
  3. 8. Front / a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between the Russian Empire and Romania
  4. 9. Trotsky / headed the Red Army as People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and played a vital role in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922.
  5. 10. of Nations / a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress
  6. 13. Powers / also known as the Central Empires, was one of the two main coalitions that fought
  7. 14. /were led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries
  8. 16. an international organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
  9. 18. War / The initial British contribution to the total allied
  10. 25. Rasputin /was the infamous 'holy man' whose ability to heal the Tsar, and Tsarina's son Alexis led to his being adopted