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