World War I

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  1. 4. The United Kingdom declares war on Germany after invading the country of ________ in World War I.
  2. 6. heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.
  3. 8. 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.
  4. 10. was the invasion, annexation, division, and colonization of most of Africa by seven Western European powers during a brief period known as the New Imperialism (between 1881 and 1914).
  5. 11. A battle in which the French and British defeated Germany in France. This meant that the Schlieffen Plan became impossible and Germany would have to fight on two fronts
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  1. 1. was an extremely bloody war that engulfed Europe from 1914 to 1918, with huge losses of life and little ground lost or won.
  2. 2. and Russia, the nucleus of the Allied Powers in World War I.
  3. 3. The ship that sank Germany is the______.
  4. 5. association between Great Britain,
  5. 7. was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border
  6. 9. In January 1917, British cryptographers deciphered a telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann to the German Minister to Mexico, Heinrich von Eckhardt, offering United States territory to Mexico in return for joining the German cause.