World War I Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. Military alliance that included the countries of Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
  2. 5. The Supreme Allied Commander of the Allies.
  3. 6. This agency coordinated the production of war materials.
  4. 9. The commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I for the United States.
  5. 10. This agency pressured industries to increase wages, adopt eight-hour workdays, and strengthened labor unions.
  6. 12. The American Expeditionary Forces launched their first major assault and blocked the German advance to Paris.
  7. 13. Germany launched a massive attack on the Western Front in March 1918. The offensive pushed the Germans deep into Allied territory, less than 40 miles from Paris.
  8. 15. Military alliance that included France, Russia, and partially Britain.
  9. 16. The strip of land between opposing forces in trench warfare that was covered in barbed wire
  10. 17. German government official who sent a telegram to Mexico that advocated for Mexico to ally with Germany against the United States.
  11. 18. A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, killing 1,200 passengers, including 128 Americans. The attack gave credibility to British propaganda for the United States not supporting Germany.
  12. 19. Serbian nationalist that assassinated Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke of the Austria-Hungarian Empire, in June 1914, which helped start World War I.
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  1. 1. The region of Europe called a “powder keg” because it was volatile.
  2. 3. He was an American Senator who proposed to revise the League of Nations before the United States joined this international organization.
  3. 4. United States forces drove back Germany in this military altercation from September 12th to 15th, 1918.
  4. 7. The agreement that officially ended Russian involvement in World War I. Russia gave up a good portion of Eastern Europe to Germany.
  5. 8. The largest military operation by the American Expeditionary Forces, it was part of the broader Allied push that ended World War I.
  6. 11. He was an African American who was murdered for coming to shore on a whites only beach.
  7. 14. He was the leader of the Bolshevik Party that seized power after the Russian Revolution in 1917.