WWI Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 1. Alliance An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy in the years before WWI.
  2. 3. Telegram This was sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States; intercepted by the US in 1917 and was one of the reason American got involved in WWI
  3. 4. Revolution the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of csarist rule; t Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  4. 9. A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country.
  5. 11. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
  6. 12. Guilt Clause (Article 231) part of the Treaty of Versailles in which Germany had to take full responsibility for WWI
  7. 13. War I (1914 - 1918) European war in which an alliance including Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States defeated the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria.
  8. 15. A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915, killing 128 Americans. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
  9. 17. Plan Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.
  10. 18. of Versailles the treaty that ended WWI; it was imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 and it demanded high reparations from the Germans.
  11. 19. Entente A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.
  12. 20. Over the Top" An advance meaning to go over the trench and across no mans land fully exposed to enemy fire.
  13. 21. A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.
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  1. 2. Peace Conference the peace conference where the "Big Four" that decided the terms of WWI peace and Treaty of Versailles.
  2. 5. Submarine Warfare A policy that the Germans announced on January 1917 which stated that their submarines would sink any ship in the British waters.
  3. 6. Man's Land A strip of land between the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during WW1.
  4. 7. War A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.
  5. 8. of Nations an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations.
  6. 10. Franz Ferdinand Archduke of Austria-Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I.
  7. 14. Warfare A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
  8. 16. Agreements between nations to aid and protect one another.
  9. 19. Front War Situation Germany found itself in under which it had to fight enemies on both its eastern and western borders.