World War I Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. low-interest loans by civilians to the government, meant to be repaid in a number of years
  2. 5. In January 1918, ten months before the war ended, President Wilson told Congress his goals for peace and his speech became known this
  3. 7. an organization set up
  4. 9. Between 1910 and 1920, about 500,000
  5. 10. socialists, and other war critics
  6. 11. forced Germany to accept full blame for the war. Germany was stripped of its colonies and most of its armed forces reparations money that a defeated nation pays for the destruction caused by a war
  7. 13. Serbia, Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, and seven other countries
  8. 16. 1914 President neutrality refusing to take sides in the war
  9. 17. Europeans had strong feelings of pride, loyalty, and protectiveness toward their own countries. They wanted to prove their nations were the best. They placed their countries’ interests above all other concerns
  10. 19. At sea, the Germans used these submarines to block trade. They were equipped with both guns and torpedoes. German These sank over 11 million tons of Allied shipping.
  11. 20. In January 1920, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer took action. He ordered federal agents and local police to raid the homes and headquarters of suspected radicals. His agents arrested at least 6,000 people
  12. 22. Congress passed this on June 15, 1917 These laws set heavy fines and long prison terms for such antiwar activities as encouraging draft resisters. The laws made it illegal to criticize the war. U.S. courts tried more than 1,500 pacifists, socialists, and other war critics
  13. 24. Central Powers faced them consisting
  14. 25. Americans moved north to such cities as New York, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, and St. Louis to fill the labor shortage in Northern US cities
  15. 26. settle conflicts through negotiation
  16. 28. The name of the 2 million American soldiers that served under John J. Pershing
  17. 29. Britain, France, Germany, and Italy competed for colonies in Africa and Asia. Because it had fewer colonies than Britain and France, Germany felt it deserved more colonies to provide it with resources and buy its goods
  18. 30. The Meuse-Argonne offensive made a hero of this American soldier
  19. 31. European nations had divided into two opposing alliances. These were made up of Austria-Hungary, Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria.
Down
  1. 2. Radicals who do not believe in any form of government
  2. 3. About 2 million American soldiers went to France and served under this General
  3. 4. It was discovered by the british, who passed it on to the Americans. In it the German foreign minister, told the German ambassador in Mexico to propose that Mexico join the Germans. In exchange, Germany would help Mexico get back its “lost” territories of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. Americans were furious.
  4. 6. force
  5. 8. Troops huddled at the bottom of rat-infested trenches. They fired artillery and machine guns at each other. Lines of trenches stretched across
  6. 10. opinions expressed for the purpose of influencing the actions of others
  7. 12. in the summer of 1918 it was the turning point of the war.
  8. 14. wrote the court’s opinion in the 1919 decision in Schenck v. United States
  9. 15. a heavy guard of destroyers escorted merchant ships across the Atlantic in groups
  10. 18. In 1919–1920, this fear created a wave of panic. Public fear was heightened by the discovery of mail bombs sent to government officials. Many believed the bombs were the work of anarchists.
  11. 21. The belief that a nation needs a large
  12. 23. Germany agreed to this as an end to fighting.
  13. 24. An attack on one nation forced all its allies to come to its aid
  14. 27. In May 1918 these laws set heavy fines and long prison terms for such antiwar activities as encouraging draft resisters. The laws made it illegal to criticize the war. U.S. courts tried more than 1,500