Across
- 5. ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause
- 10. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in alliance before the start of World War I
- 13. a compulsory military enlistment
- 15. international organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join; proved ineffectual in stopping aggression by Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 1930s
- 18. political ideology that stresses people's membership in a nation-a community defined by a common culture and history as well as by territory
- 20. long ditches dug in the ground with the excavated earth banked in front in order to defend against enemy fire
- 21. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Ottoman Empire
Down
- 1. Woodrow Wilson’s plan to establish lasting peace after World War I
- 2. after World War I, this United States president sought to reduce the risk of war by writing the Fourteen Points that influenced the creation of the League of Nations
- 3. a general rise in prices; the printing of money after World War I in Germany caused the value of their money to decrease drastically
- 4. the assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand
- 6. Written by Arthur Zimmerman, a German foreign secretary; the German government offered to help Mexico reclaim territory lost to the US in 1848 if Mexico allied with Germany in World War I
- 7. Serbian nationalist/terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand which resulted in the start of World War I
- 8. another name for World War I because of the immense, unprecedented scale of fighting
- 9. as part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war. Opposed by the U.S., it quickly led to a severe depression in Germany
- 11. organized by the victors of WWI to negotiate the peace treaties between the Allied and Central Powers
- 12. a term used to describe those suffering from the shock of World War I
- 14. aggressive military preparedness that celebrates war and the armed forces
- 16. the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
- 17. democratic government founded in 1919 in Germany following Kaiser Wilhelm II's abdication near the end of War World I
- 19. the idea that Britain could pacify Germany and make sure there was no war at any cost