World War 1

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Across
  1. 1. a strong love for one's country.
  2. 3. World War 1 military strategy of defending a position by fighting from the protection of deep ditches.
  3. 5. government policy that requires citizens to join the army.
  4. 7. where soldiers trained for several months before battling.
  5. 10. a day that Australian and New Zealand celebrates all the lives that sacrificed and died for their country.
  6. 13. the name given to the line of trenches which stretched from the english channel across the battle fields of France and Belgium during WW1.
  7. 14. policy of building up an empire.
  8. 16. slang for Savage and uncivilized Germans.
  9. 20. idea about how nations should work together.
  10. 23. Germans released a deadly gas, also known as poison gas.
  11. 25. country pays for damage caused by war.
  12. 26. law that requires people of a certain age to enlist in the military.
  13. 27. a member of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness or capture.
  14. 28. the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
Down
  1. 1. strip of land between the trenches of opposing armies along the western front during WW1.
  2. 2. a union or association between three powers or states.
  3. 4. the gathering of resources and preparation for war.
  4. 6. information given to show something or someone in a biased way.
  5. 8. women were able to be a part of the war by helping injured soldiers.
  6. 9. a formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to another's defense.
  7. 11. the military alliance formed between Russia, Great Britain and France before World War 1.
  8. 12. most famous WW1 treaty.
  9. 13. a military conflict centered on Europe that began in the summer of 1914. The fighting ended in late 1918.
  10. 15. a rapid firing weapon.
  11. 17. these men were considered non-existent during and after the war with no acknowledgement.
  12. 18. leaders of britain, France, the U.S and Italy after WW1.
  13. 19. womens did a great load of voluntary work while men were in the war.
  14. 21. the creator of the 'Gas Mask' poem explaining the feelings and experience on the Western Front.
  15. 22. German Submarines.
  16. 24. an agreement to stop fighting.