World War I
Across
- 4. The United Kingdom declares war on Germany after invading the country of ________ in World War I.
- 6. heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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
Down
- 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. and Russia, the nucleus of the Allied Powers in World War I.
- 3. The ship that sank Germany is the______.
- 5. association between Great Britain,
- 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
- 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.