WWI Vocab and review

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Across
  1. 3. a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug into the battlefield
  2. 5. the second of two revolutions taking place in Russia in 1917 in which the Bolshevik communists took control of Russian government
  3. 8. organized violence against Jews in Russia
  4. 10. a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army prepared for war
  5. 11. President of the U.S. during WWI who presented his 14 Points at the Paris Peace Conference at the close of war
  6. 12. mass murder committed during WWI by the Ottoman Turks against approximately one million Christians who lived in the Ottoman Empire
  7. 15. the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries
  8. 16. heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary whose assassination in 1914 would begin a chain of events that launched World War I
  9. 17. an international organization proposed by U.S. President Woodrow to promote disarmament and prevent future wars
  10. 18. the Russian communists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who overthrew the Russian provisional government in the October Revolution of 1917
Down
  1. 1. leader of the communist Bolsheviks who overthrew the Russian provisional government in 1917 and ruled the Soviet Union until 1924
  2. 2. President Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.
  3. 4. the belief that peoples' main loyalty should be to their nation and to the people whom they share a common culture and history
  4. 6. the last Tsar of Russia and of the Romanov dynasty, deposed of his powers in the 1917 October Revolution.
  5. 7. acronym for the United Soviet Socialist Republic, or, the Soviet Union.
  6. 9. ended czarist rule in Russia, put into place a provisional government, and later, brought about Bolshevik communist control of a new Soviet Union
  7. 13. a conflict fought between Bolshevik communist armies (reds) and those opposed to their takeover of the Russian government (whites) from 1918 to 1920
  8. 14. the system established after World War I to administer former territories of the German and Ottoman empires, essentially where the victors took control of conquered territories as the spoils of war.