WORLD WAR 1

1. a reason for an action or condition
5. murder by sudden or secret attack often for political reasons
8. a general encounter between armies, ships of war, or aircraft
10. the land of a person's birth, residence, or citizenship
13. the power or capacity of causing an effect in indirect or intangible ways
17. the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company
19. a geographic area belonging to or under the jurisdiction of a governmental authority
20. to make known formally, officially, or explicitly

2. a final proposition, condition, or demand
3. a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action
4. a comparatively narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water
6. one engaged in military service and especially in the army
7. to refuse to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose
9. to assemble and make ready for war duty
11. a telegraphic dispatch
12. based on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
14. incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority
15. competitive or opposing action of incompatibles
16. a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations
18. a definite course or method of action selected from among alternatives and in light of given conditions to guide and determine present and future decisions