Across
- 2. war/economies, and populations of participating nations to an extent never seen before in history
- 3. Warfare/ long, deep ditches dug as protective defenses
- 6. Front/ a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between the Russian Empire and Romania
- 7. Declaration/a statement issued by the British government in 1917
- 12. Alliance/A secret agreement between Germany Austria-Hungary, and Italy
- 14. Princip/assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and the Archduke's wife, Sophie
- 15. The rest of the world conducted the war with each other.
- 19. note/ was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917
- 22. the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, an event that led directly to the outbreak
- 23. War/ The mechanized mass destruction of enemy combatants, grew ever more deadly.
- 24. an international organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.
- 25. of Nations/ a proposal made by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress
- 26. Front/ the main theatre of war during the First World War.
- 27. used to sink 5,000 ships measuring more than 13 million gross register tons during the war.
Down
- 1. led by Vladimir Lenin and a group of revolutionaries
- 4. Treaty/ levied on the Central Powers after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs.
- 5. Rasputin/was the infamous 'holy man' whose ability to heal the Tsar, and Tsarina's son Alexis led to his being adopted
- 8. Entente/the nucleus of the Allied Powers
- 9. Wilson/ leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States.
- 10. Points/ the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land.
- 11. Trotsky/ headed the Red Army as People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and played a vital role in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922.
- 13. all the national parties in the Socialist International/ supported their respective governments in the war crisis
- 16. proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico if the United States entered World War I again.
- 17. Powers/ also known as the Central Empires, was one of the two main coalitions that fought
- 18. Ferdinand/was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary
- 20. Powers/ formally linked by the Treaty of London of September 5, 1914.
- 21. War/ The initial British contribution to the total allied