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- 1. shift national economy to produce things needed for war
- 4. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- 9. a communist ideology and the main communist movement throughout the 20th century
- 10. a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.
- 11. By the end of the war, Great Britain had formed the world's first air force to be independent of either army or naval control, the Royal Air Force.
- 14. abbreviation of Unterseeboot, (“undersea boat”), a German submarine. ... The destruction of enemy shipping by German U-boats was a spectacular feature of both World Wars I and II.
- 15. the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.
- 17. an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce
- 20. Neutral country in WWI; Beligum
- 22. involved the governments, economies and populations of participating nations to an extent never seen before in history.
- 24. Bosnian Serb member of Young Bosnia who sought an end to Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 26. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, between the new Bolshevik government of Soviet Russia and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I.
- 27. a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
- 28. an agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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- 2. were levied on the Central Powers after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs.
- 3. a 400-plus mile stretch of land weaving through France and Belgium from the Swiss border to the North Sea, was the decisive front during the First World War.
- 5. informal understanding between the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic and Great Britain.
- 6. were a radical, far-left, and revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov
- 7. was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
- 8. were a group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I. The members included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and their territories.
- 12. was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and politician.
- 13. was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.
- 16. a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between the Russian Empire and Romania on one side and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the German Empire on the other.
- 18. The Allies of World War I or Entente Powers were a coalition of countries led by France, Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan and the United States against the Central Powers
- 19. public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
- 21. was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late Imperial Russia.
- 23. most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end.
- 25. served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921