WWI Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. These new weapons made crossing No Man's Land almost impossible at times
- 7. This is the name of the plan the United States President submitted to the world on how to end the war
- 8. this country was carved out of pieces of the Balkans and the Austro-Hungarian Empire to create an independent, Slavic kingdom.
- 10. This refers to the land that the Ottomans, Austrians, Italians, and Russians all desired
- 11. This was a major site for trench warfare, encompassing most of 1916
- 14. This refers to the battles between the Ottomans and the British over control of Black Sea access
- 15. This belief was fueled by decades of easy victories against technologically inferior countries in Asia and Africa
- 18. This is the name of the informal alliance created by countries afraid of German expansion
- 19. These new vehicles were designed to traverse the land between the trenches
- 20. this new type of weapon causes long, permanent damages to people and was later banned as a crime against humanity
Down
- 1. This new weapon of war was only invented in the previous decade and was being used for scouting and dropping bombs
- 2. This was the promise Germany made to the United States that it would stop sinking passenger ships
- 4. This American politician led Congress to vote against entry into the League of Nations
- 5. This was one of the two passenger ships covered in class whose destruction really upset the United States
- 6. This was the U.S. president during World War I
- 9. This refers to the German offensive when they tried to divide the British from the French to force separate peace treaties
- 12. This empire fell into a communist revolution during the end of WWI, leading to the birth of a new country
- 13. This is where the treaty to end World War I was signed
- 16. This was a common site for several battles during the war as the Germans and French fought over the river of its namesake
- 17. This declining empire joined the Central Powers with the hopes of reclaiming lost land in the Balkans