World War I

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Across
  1. 2. A war that involves ALL the resources of a country, where factories/industries were used to produce weapons and other war related materials.
  2. 3. One of the long term causes of WWI, this policy was driven by the competition to build the biggest, strongest military. An arms race.
  3. 5. The battle of the _____;First battle of WWI. Germans came very close to capturing Paris but were driven back by British and French.
  4. 6. The war front along the German-Russia border.
  5. 9. The name of the teenager who started WWI by assassinating the heir apparent to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
  6. 10. One of the long term causes of WWI, it's the policy of stronger nations to take over weaker ones. European countries competed for control/colonies in Africa and Asia leading up to WWI.
  7. 12. Agreement between Allies and Central powers that ended the fighting. Signed 11/11/1918 at 11:11am.
  8. 14. One of the long term causes of WWI, this is patriotism gone bad, where extreme pride in one's country results in denying all others as inferior to yours.
  9. 16. German military plan to avoid a 2-front war.
  10. 17. This country entered the war in 1917 and ended the stalemate.
  11. 19. The battles of ________ and _______ were fought in 1916 along the Western Front that resulted in tremendous loss of life and little territorial gain.
  12. 20. Strip of land between the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front.
  13. 22. This country dropped out of the war in 1917 to have a communist revolution.
  14. 23. A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched from Switzerland to the North Sea.
Down
  1. 1. Germans used these vessels to attack Britain's navy as well as civilian ships flying a British flag.
  2. 4. Weapon that caused blindness and slow death.
  3. 7. The WWI alliance made up of Great Britain, France, and Russia. Later became the Allied Powers, and was joined by the USA.
  4. 8. New weaponry that fired hundreds of rounds a minute. Caused many deaths and led to the stalemate on the Western Front and creation of trenches.
  5. 11. One of the long term causes of WWI, this describes the secret agreements among European nations that resulted in the forming of the Triple Alliance against the Triple Entente.
  6. 13. Style of warfare common in WWI that emerged due to the need to protect troops from machine gun and heavy artillery.
  7. 15. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the ________ cause of WWI.
  8. 18. The overseas colonies contributed to the Allied victory in WWI by providing _______ and ______.
  9. 21. The WWI alliance made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Later became the Central Powers.