WWI terms and ideas

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Across
  1. 2. the country that Germany went through to get to France
  2. 3. calling young men into service (first used in 1917 for US troops)
  3. 4. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
  4. 5. this man was assassinated and it sparked WWI
  5. 9. nickname for American Soldiers in WWI
  6. 10. the development of and ramping up of weapons and troops
  7. 11. the British ocean liner sunk by German U-boats
  8. 14. chemical used in Europe in the trenches
  9. 17. system by which merchant ships were guarded by a heavy guard of destroyers across the Atlantic.
  10. 18. this was the assassin who killed the Austrian archduke
  11. 19. the US president at the start of WWI
  12. 20. general who led the American expeditionary force
  13. 21. most of the fighting took place in these
Down
  1. 1. _____________ note - a telegram sent by Germany to Mexico
  2. 6. strong level of patriotism
  3. 7. these networks directly contributed to the start of WWI because countries were connected
  4. 8. large-scale movement or hundreds of thousands of southern African Americans to cities in the North.
  5. 12. the system of empire and colonialism
  6. 13. a new weapon in WWI used to move troops and get over trenches
  7. 15. Britain, France, and Russia (and later the US) in WWI
  8. 16. biased communication to the public