WW1 Vocab
Across
- 2. Wilhelm I Ruler of Germany during World War I
- 6. Alliance World War I alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
- 8. New warship introduced by Germany that could submerge underwater and used torpedoes
- 9. Government system of allowing only small amounts of items to be bought by the public
- 11. The policy of keeping a large army and glorifying war
- 14. Gas New weapon that caused choking, blindness, and death
- 15. Front The stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border
- 17. Front The region of France that became a bloody stalemate
Down
- 1. Entente Alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia during World War I
- 3. An agreement to stop fighting by both opposing sides in war
- 4. Warfare Battle strategy in which soldiers fought from deep pits dug into the earth.
- 5. Nicholas Leader of Russia up until 1917
- 7. One-sided information used by a government to persuade the public in its cause
- 10. Note Sent from Germany to Mexico in hopes that Mexico would ally itself with Germany against the United States
- 12. Plan Germany’s battle strategy that called for a quick defeat of France, then attacking Russia in the East
- 13. Wilson American President who kept us out of World War I until 1917
- 16. Balkans The region of Europe nicknamed “The Powder Keg” because it was so volatile.
- 18. Armored combat vehicle used for the first time in World War I