World War I

2. in World War I, the region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.
4. a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.
7. Twenty-eighth president of the United States; he proposed the League of Nations after World War I as a part of his Fourteen Points.
8. a form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
11. Germany’s military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.
12. In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, Rusia, along with the other nations-including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S.A—that opposed the Axis Powers in World War II.
14. in World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side.
15. the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy—often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply.

1. a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.
3. in World War I, the region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.
5. an agreement to stop fighting.
6. a military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I.
9. a military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.
10. II last German emperor (kaiser) and king of Prussia; known for his militaristic outlook and often blamed for the outbreak of World War I, he was forced to abdicate in late 1918
13. information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent’s cause.