World War 1 Terms

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Across
  1. 2. a competition between countries to have the best-equipped military
  2. 5. the spread of power of one country into other territories, thereby creating an empire
  3. 7. a war which requires countries to fight on several different battlegrounds or territories
  4. 9. a German military plan in which troops moved through Belgium en route to attacking France
  5. 13. also known as the Allied Powers. An unofficial alliance between Britain, France, and Russia
  6. 14. a type of fighting where both armies dig themselves into trenches on either side of a battlefield and shoot at one another from the trenches
  7. 15. a British naval policy requiring that the empire's navy be twice as strong as the second-largest navy in the world
  8. 16. a promise from germany to support Austria-Hungary completely, even if it lead to war
  9. 18. the combining of forces and loyalty of all 'slavic' nations in southeastern Europe, with the goal of creating an independent Slavic nation
  10. 19. the movement of a society toward an industry-based economy and culture
Down
  1. 1. a system in which the government is dominated by the military and strength of forces is a top priority of society
  2. 3. a kind of warfare where victory is achieved by forcing the enemy to exhaustion and defeat over a long period of time, instead of a quick victory
  3. 4. leaving the trenches to run across the battle field and shoot into enemy trenches, fully exposed to machine guns
  4. 6. a desolate area unoccupied because of fear. Often a space between the trenches or camps of opposing armies. (metaphorically: an indefinite area or idea)
  5. 8. an agreement of mutual support and objectives between two or more nations, usually including a promise to protect and cooperate militarily
  6. 10. war in which any amount of sacrifice is deemed necessary to win and the whole energy of a nation is devoted solely to the war effort
  7. 11. a threat which states conditions that must be met and the dire consequences which will follow failure to meet those conditions
  8. 12. pride and loyalty to one's nation and the preservation of that nation's traditions. Can also apply to an ethnic group lacking a nation
  9. 17. a serbian rebel group who tried to kill Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in order to free Serbia and other Slavic groups from Austria-Hungary and create a nation of their own