Across
- 1. big cannon capable of hurling 1 ton shells as far as 8 miles and smashed Belgian fronts in 1914
- 8. Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
- 10. reached speeds of 100mph and dominated the skies
- 11. the area between 2 opposing trenches
- 17. France, Britain, and Russia
- 18. President Wilson's stance
- 20. If left untreated, their feet would get gangrene and would have to be amputated
- 22. pushed many smaller countries to fight for their independence against the control of larger countries
- 23. competing with other countries to build the strongest military
- 24. had the strongest navy and Germany wanted to match it
Down
- 2. would be developed to prevent the soldiers from breathing in the gas
- 3. Battle where the British suffered 57,000 casualties in one day, making it the deadliest day in British History
- 4. German U-Boat torpedoed this luxury steamship, killing 1,195 people, including 128 Americans
- 5. attack led by the allies that took the Germans by surprise
- 6. Germans outran all of their supplies, causing them to not have any resources
- 7. requires men to register with government to be randomly selected for military service
- 9. the use of destroyer ships to escort ships across the Atlantic
- 12. This battle would be the longest fought in WW1
- 13. the Bosnian group that planned the attack on Franz Ferdinand
- 14. also known as PTSD
- 15. Gaining control of smaller countries in order to increase economic and political power
- 16. The assassination of this person was a big cause of WWI
- 19. armored machine to survive machine gun and go through barbed wire
- 21. the design for trenches so the enemy couldn't shoot straight