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  1. 3. mask a protective mask used to cover a person's face as a defense against poisonous gas.
  2. 4. warfare A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other
  3. 8. a position counting as a draw, in which a player is not in check but cannot move except into check.
  4. 9. Bolsheviki, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.
  5. 10. the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.
  6. 11. (of a disease) prevalent over a whole country or the world.
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  1. 1. boy was an informal term for a member of the United States Army or Marine Corps, especially used to refer to members of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, but initially used in the Mexican-American War of 1846-48.
  2. 2. the understanding between Britain and France reached in 1904, forming the basis of Anglo-French cooperation in World War I.
  3. 5. large-caliber guns used in warfare on land.
  4. 6. A city of north-central France west-southwest of Paris. It is best known for its magnificent palace, built by Louis XIV in the late 1600s, where the treaty ending World War I was signed in 1919.x.
  5. 7. note was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico in the prior event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.