World War I Vocabulary
Across
- 3. An organization for international cooperation established at the initiative of the victorious Allied Powers at the end of World War I.
- 6. Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition
- 7. First leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- 11. An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time;
- 13. A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany, Mexico and Japan in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
- 14. Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
- 16. Form of government that theoretically permits no individual freedom and that seeks to subordinate all aspects of the individual’s life to the authority of the government.
- 18. A British luxury liner sunk by a German submarine in the North Atlantic on May 7, 1915: one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I.
- 19. Chinese Communist leader and theorist.
- 20. A Serbian nationalist who became the catalyst for World War I when he assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914.
- 21. 28th President of the U.S. and led America though World War I
Down
- 1. Fourteen goals of the United States in the peace negotiations after World War
- 2. An official order or commission to do something.
- 4. Austrian archduke whose assassination by a Serbian nationalist started World War I
- 5. An agreement was reached to prevent the outbreak of war
- 8. The spreading of information in support of a cause. It’s not so important whether the information is true or false or if the cause is just or not
- 9. The understanding linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on 31 August 1907.
- 10. Last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia/ accuse of starting WW1
- 12. The opinions or actions of people who believe that a country should use military methods, forces, etc.
- 15. A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.
- 17. Germany and its allies (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire)