World War 1 Review

3. A massive 1916 British offensive that resulted in over 1 million total casualties.
5. The Belgian town where the first large-scale use of poison gas occurred in 1915.
7. The act of assembling and preparing a nation’s army and resources for war.
9. A brutal battle in 1916 where Germany aimed to "bleed France white" at a symbolic fortified city.
10. The river where French and British forces stopped the initial German advance on Paris in 1914.
11. WAR A type of conflict requiring the complete mobilization of all of a nation's resources and population.
15. A battlefield feature where a piece of territory pushes into enemy territory and is surrounded on three sides.

1. The German official whose intercepted telegram to Mexico proposed an alliance against the U.S.
2. MANS LAND The dangerous area between opposing trench systems.
4. The German strategic plan to avoid a two-front war by knocking France out of the conflict early.
6. A term used to describe mustard gas because it could remain active in the soil and trenches for weeks.
8. FORTY The secret British Admiralty department responsible for breaking German naval codes.
12. The British passenger liner sunk by a U-Boat in 1915, killing over 100 Americans.
13. The largest naval battle of the war, fought in the North Sea between Britain and Germany.
14. A 1915 Allied campaign aimed at opening a supply route to Russia by attacking the Ottoman Empire.