World War I Vocabulary
Across
- 4. first permanent internation security organization-- mission was to maintain world peace
- 8. name given to the British, French, and Russian alliance
- 9. refraining from taking side in war or controversy between others
- 10. heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assasination (1914) triggered WWI
- 11. treaty imposed by the allied powers in 1920 after the end of the war that demanded compensation from Germany
- 12. name given to the alliance between the German Empire, Ottoman empire, Bulgarian Kingdom, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire
- 13. union formed for mutual benefit between countries and organizations
Down
- 1. making of amends by the offender; compensation or repayment
- 2. Tsar and Tsarina of Russia who were abdicated in 1917. A weak (eventually failing) Provisional Government was formed to replace the void.
- 3. Russian revolutionary and lawyer who created the Soviet Communist Party; founder of the USSR; head of Bolsheviks who led the Red Army to victory in the Russian Civil War before establishing the world's first socialist stat
- 5. a form of warfare where both sides of the war attack from trenches protected by barbed wire
- 6. a truce or agreement made to stop fighting by both sides
- 7. when the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks