World War 1 vocab
Across
- 5. telegram written by German foreign minister Zimmermann proposing an alliance between Germany and Mexico against the United States during World War 1
- 7. act passed by congress in 1917 enacting severe penalties for anyone engaged in disloyal or treasonable activities
- 10. act passed by Congress in 1917 authorizing a draft of men for military service
- 13. world organization established after World War 1 to promote peaceful cooperation between countries
- 15. country which is owed more money by other countries than it owes other countries
- 16. German submarine
- 17. government agency created during World War 1 to encourage Americans to support the war
- 18. fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life
Down
- 1. glorification of the military
- 2. list of terms for resolving World War 1 and future wars underlined by American President Woodrow Wilson
- 3. the series of raids in the early 1920s initiated by Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, against suspected radicals and communists
- 4. presidential candidate in the 1920 election
- 6. group of merchant ships sailing together, protected by war ships
- 8. battle front between the Allies and the Central Powers in western Europe during World War 1
- 9. the right of people to choose their own form of government
- 11. person whose moral or religious beliefs forbid him or her to fight in wars
- 12. rising prices
- 13. British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat during World War 1
- 14. movement of African Americans in the twentieth century from the rural South to the industrial North