History 9B Unit V Imperialism and WWI

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Across
  1. 1. Wilhelm : Grandson of Queen Victoria and Kaiser of Germany from 1888 to 1918; he was vilified as causing World War I
  2. 3. Entente : The understanding between Britain, France, and Russia that developed between 1894 and 1907 and counterbalanced the Triple Alliance of 1882. The Entente became a formal alliance on the outbreak of World War I and was ended by the Russian Revolution in 1917
  3. 4. : An agreement to stop fighting for a certain time, a truce.
  4. 7. War : The war between the us and spain in 1898.
  5. 9. Neighbor Policy : The Good Neighbor policy was the foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America
  6. 10. : The act of annexing or adding something. (Especially new territory.)
  7. 12. : The state of being neutral.
  8. 15. Policy : The policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries.
  9. 17. Note : Was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join the Central Power, in the event of the United States entering World War l on the side of the Entente Powers.
  10. 21. Wilson : 28th president, led the US in World War I.
  11. 22. System : A group of nations and/or people that worked together to attack an enemy nation.
  12. 24. of Versailles / 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
  13. 25. Warfare : Combat in which each side occupies a system of defensive trenches.
Down
  1. 2. of Influence : A country or area in which one nation wields dominate power over another.
  2. 5. : A policy of extending a country’s power through diplomacy or military force.
  3. 6. Great War : A slang term for world war 1.
  4. 8. : Information or ideas methodically spread to promote or injure a cause, movement, nation, etc
  5. 11. Roosevelt : 26th president, hero of the Spanish-American War.
  6. 13. Howard Taft : 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court
  7. 14. Ferdinand : Franz Ferdinand (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
  8. 16. revolution : The uprising in Russia in March 1917, during which the tsar abdicated and a provisional government
  9. 18. Man Land : An area between opposing armies over which no control has been established.
  10. 19. Powers : Also known as Allies; countries which formed an alliance in opposition to the Central or Axis powers in World War I.(Great Britan,France,Russia). Belgium was partially allied with them but remained neutral.
  11. 20. Canal : 48 mile canal in Panama, connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
  12. 23. Powers : (in World War I) Germany and Austria-Hungary, often with their allies Turkey and Bulgaria, as opposed to the Allies.