Great War Terms

3. assassination sparked the World War 1 in the form of secret alliances between countries
6. torpedoed by U-Boat;128 Americans were killed, so the United States entered the war.
7. Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire
12. Signed at the Palace of Versailles; one of several that officially ended the Great War
13. the real reason the War became so large scaled
14. Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States
15. The narrow area of land that separated trenches occupied by opposing forces

1. suggested by President Wilson, that was created after the war to provide a forum for resolving international disputes
2. constant, low-intensity conflict characterized by one party holding a strong, static, defensive position
4. desire to add colonies or a policy or the practice of expansion especially of territorial expansion by a nation
5. sunk the lusitania and were manufactured by the germans
8. armoured vehicles to capture points and cross difficult terrain safely
9. strategic victory for Germany; British failed to slow down the advance of the German army into France
10. land warfare using occupied fighting lines; troops are well-protected from enemy's small arms fire and sheltered from artillery.
11. contributes the most deaths