WWI crossword puzzle
Across
- 4. the protection of merchant ships from U-boat-German submarine-attacks by having the ships travel in large groups escorted by warships
- 5. a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I
- 7. Archduke of Austria Hungary assassinated by a Serbian in 1914. His murder was one of the causes of WW I
- 9. a strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
- 10. A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war
- 11. a policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically
- 15. a biased type of communication
- 16. one of the largest movements of people in United States history
- 18. The first and only Welshman to hold the office of Prime Minister
- 19. American financier and statesman
- 20. a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war
Down
- 1. a group of people with similar political ambitions—can seek to create its own independent government or state
- 2. American Republican politician, historian, and statesman from Massachusetts=
- 3. signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One
- 6. In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies
- 8. a United States government agency established on July 28
- 12. a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries
- 13. Commander of American Expeditionary Force of over 1 million troops who insisted his soldiers fight as independent units so US would have independent role in shaping the peace
- 14. a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield
- 17. served as the head of the United States Committee on Public Information, a propaganda organization created by President Woodrow Wilson during World War I