world war I
Across
- 5. 1914, when war was declared in ¬¬¬_______
- 8. payment for war damages
- 9. a love of one's country and the desire to have that country free of the control of others
- 11. when a country does not pick a side to fight on
- 12. The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, determined post-war borders from Europe to the Middle East, established the _____ __ _______ as an international peace organization and punished Germany for its aggression with reparations and the loss of territory.
- 13. treaty that officially ended World War 1 in 1919 (The Treaty of_____________)
- 16. warships used to stop goods from leaving or entering Germany
- 17. Name given to American soldiers during WWI (b/c of the helmet they wore)
- 18. German submarines named after the German word Unterseeboot which means “undersea boat”
- 19. A telegram sent to a German official in Mexico before the U.S. entered WWI; it proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico and asked Mexico to attack the U.S.
- 20. the land between trenches that neither side controlled
- 21. president during the World War I
- 22. In late June 1914, Archduke ¬¬¬____________of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
- 23. biased government controlled information
- 24. Act which required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted into the armed forces
- 29. U.S. ,France, England, Russia (main countries of the ¬¬-______ powers)
Down
- 1. Apr 06, 1917 the ______ _______ enters World War I
- 2. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Major General ¬¬¬__________commander of the AEF in May 1917
- 3. new technology used to help protect soldiers from poison gas
- 4. the Czar was overthrown and a democratic government set up
- 6. The primary issue that caused Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2nd. Four days later, America joined World War
- 7. British passenger liner sunk by German u-boats
- 10. introduction of ¬¬¬¬¬_______ _______such as machine guns, tanks and chemical weapons
- 14. an agreement among nations to defend one another
- 15. bonds that American citizens bought that helped to pay for the costs of World War I.
- 25. World War I ended in the defeat of the ________ Powers in 1918
- 26. system of limiting the amount of food and materials in use
- 27. cease fire that ended the war
- 28. four years of the Great War--as it was then known--saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction, thanks to grueling ______ warfare (deep ditches where the soldiers fought during WWI)