World War I

1. – Government agency that coordinated industrial production for war.
5. – Germany’s strategy to avoid a two-front war by invading France through Belgium.
7. – President Wilson’s plan for a just and lasting peace after WWI.
9. - Territory between rival Trenches, very dangerous
11. - A position of not taking sides in a conflict. The US was neutral at the beginning of WWI.
14. - invasion of ______ in 1914 led Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany.
16. – Government-issued savings bonds to finance WWI.
18. – Law requiring men to register for the military draft in 1917.
19. – ________ Powers- Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in WWI.
20. – 1917 law that punished people for spying and aiding the enemy.

2. – 1918 law that made it illegal to criticize the government or war effort during WWI.
3. – International group formed after WWI to resolve conflicts peacefully (U.S. never joined).
4. - _____ are underground areas that troops dug in order to have somewhere to reconvene and fire their guns during warfare.
6. - World War I began after the assassination of Archduke Franz ________ of Austria on June 28, 1914, in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
8. – Committee on __________: A Government agency that spread pro-war propaganda.
10. – Secret message from Germany to Mexico urging an attack on the U.S. in return for land.
12. - 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
13. – British passenger ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1915, killing 128 Americans.
15. - Money securities sold by the US Gov to citizens to finance the war effort.
17. – Nickname for American soldiers in WWI.