World War I Russian Revolution

4. II: The last czar of Russia, who abdicated in 1917 and was later executed.
5. The elected national legislature established by Nicholas II after the 1905 Revolution.
9. Lenin: The leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and the first head of Soviet Russia.
11. The class of factory and railroad workers that Marxists believed would overthrow the czar.
13. A deadlock situation where neither side can defeat the other, common on the Western Front.
15. Warfare: A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from parallel ditches dug into the ground.
16. The British passenger liner sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, turning U.S. public opinion against Germany.
18. The secret police force used by the communists to eliminate political opposition.
19. The nickname for a German submarine, derived from the word Unterseeboot.
20. of Brest-Litovsk: The 1918 peace agreement between Germany and Russia that ended Russian involvement in WWI.
21. An agreement to end fighting; signed on November 11, 1918.

1. Wilson: The U.S. President who authored the "Fourteen Points" for peace.
2. An elite group of socialists led by Lenin that seized power during the October Revolution.
3. The "mad monk" who gained great influence over the Czarina Alexandra.
6. Note: A German telegram proposing an alliance with Mexico against the United States.
7. Local councils of workers and soldiers that competed for power with the provisional government.
8. The glorification of military power and the constant preparation for war.
10. Franz Ferdinand: His 1914 assassination in Sarajevo was the "spark" that started the war.
12. Revolution Clues
14. Entente: The pre-war alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia.
17. Trotsky: The war commissar and intellectual who organized the Bolshevik seizure of power and led the Red Army.