World War I Crossword Puzzle By: Chase Moore

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Across
  1. 5. 1914, when war was declared in ¬¬¬_______
  2. 8. four years of the Great War--as it was then known--saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction, thanks to grueling ______ warfare (deep ditches where the soldiers fought during WWI)
  3. 9. President Woodrow Wilson appointed Major General ¬¬¬__________commander of the AEF in May 1917
  4. 11. The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, determined post-war borders from Europe to the Middle East, established the _____ __ _______ as an international peace organization and punished Germany for its aggression with reparations and the loss of territory.
  5. 13. system of limiting the amount of food and materials in use
  6. 14. bonds that American citizens bought that helped to pay for the costs of World War I.
  7. 16. treaty that officially ended World War 1 in 1919 (The Treaty of_____________)
  8. 18. U.S. ,France, England, Russia (main countries of the ¬¬-______ powers)
  9. 19. the Czar was overthrown and a democratic government set up
  10. 21. the land between trenches that neither side controlled
  11. 22. World War I ended in the defeat of the ________ Powers in 1918
  12. 23. The primary issue that caused Woodrow Wilson to ask Congress to declare war on Germany on April 2nd. Four days later, America joined World War
  13. 26. British passenger liner sunk by German u-boats
  14. 27. when a country does not pick a side to fight on
  15. 28. biased government controlled information
Down
  1. 1. Apr 06, 1917 the ______ _______ enters World War I
  2. 2. A telegram sent to a German official in Mexico before the U.S. entered WWI; it proposed an alliance between Germany and Mexico and asked Mexico to attack the U.S.
  3. 3. warships used to stop goods from leaving or entering Germany
  4. 4. payment for war damages
  5. 6. introduction of ¬¬¬¬¬_______ _______such as machine guns, tanks and chemical weapons
  6. 7. president during the World War I
  7. 10. new technology used to help protect soldiers from poison gas
  8. 12. Act which required men between the ages of 21 and 30 to register to be drafted into the armed forces
  9. 15. German submarines named after the German word Unterseeboot which means “undersea boat”
  10. 17. an agreement among nations to defend one another
  11. 20. a love of one's country and the desire to have that country free of the control of others
  12. 24. cease fire that ended the war
  13. 25. In late June 1914, Archduke ¬¬¬____________of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia.
  14. 29. Name given to American soldiers during WWI (b/c of the helmet they wore)