World War I Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. An agreement to stop fighting.
  2. 5. The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation- that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history- rather than to a king or empire.
  3. 7. Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which Germany troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.
  4. 8. A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.
  5. 9. The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy- often imposed by governments during warfare, when goods are in short supply.
  6. 10. A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.
  7. 11. A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.
  8. 12. In World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side.
  9. 13. A military alliance between Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I
  10. 15. The region of southeastern Europe now occupied by Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, and the European part of Turkey, and the former republics of Yugoslavia.
Down
  1. 1. Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause.
  2. 2. The note from Germany that was intercepted by the British, and it was the linchpin for America declaring war on Germany.
  3. 4. The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship found in an enemy's water.
  4. 6. A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.
  5. 8. A form of warfare in which operating armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.
  6. 14. In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with other nations that fought on their side; also the group of nations-including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States- that opposed the Axis power in World War II