Across
- 2. a competition between countries to have the best-equipped military
- 5. the spread of power of one country into other territories, thereby creating an empire
- 7. a war which requires countries to fight on several different battlegrounds or territories
- 9. a German military plan in which troops moved through Belgium en route to attacking France
- 13. also known as the Allied Powers. An unofficial alliance between Britain, France, and Russia
- 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
- 15. a British naval policy requiring that the empire's navy be twice as strong as the second-largest navy in the world
- 16. a promise from germany to support Austria-Hungary completely, even if it lead to war
- 18. the combining of forces and loyalty of all 'slavic' nations in southeastern Europe, with the goal of creating an independent Slavic nation
- 19. the movement of a society toward an industry-based economy and culture
Down
- 1. a system in which the government is dominated by the military and strength of forces is a top priority of society
- 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
- 4. leaving the trenches to run across the battle field and shoot into enemy trenches, fully exposed to machine guns
- 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)
- 8. an agreement of mutual support and objectives between two or more nations, usually including a promise to protect and cooperate militarily
- 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
- 11. a threat which states conditions that must be met and the dire consequences which will follow failure to meet those conditions
- 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
- 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