World War 1 Vocab

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  1. 6. The treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
  2. 8. Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause.
  3. 9. A strategy drawn up by Germany to avoid fighting a war on two fronts
  4. 11. A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.
  5. 14. A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war
  6. 15. Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
Down
  1. 1. an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations
  2. 2. A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
  3. 3. A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in the warring countries, even those remote from the battlefields.
  4. 4. A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.
  5. 5. Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire
  6. 7. Front In WWI, the region along the German-Russian Border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.
  7. 10. Submarine Warfare When Germans announced resumption of unrestricted submarine, US broke off diplomatic ties, and later declared war on Germany
  8. 12. Front A line of trenches and fortifications in World War I that stretched without a break from Switzerland to the North Sea. Scene of most of the fighting between Germany, on the one hand, and France and Britain, on the other.
  9. 13. A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use
  10. 16. A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.