World War I Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The policy of keeping a large army and glorifying war.
  2. 5. World War I Alliance that included Great Britain, France, and Russia.
  3. 8. America’s president who kept U.S. out of the war until 1917.
  4. 9. Ruler of Germany during WWI.
  5. 12. The region of France that became a bloody stalemate.
  6. 13. The region of Europe called a “powder keg” because it was so volatile.
  7. 16. This country belonged to the Allied Powers in WWI.
  8. 17. Government system of allowing only small amounts of items to be bought.
  9. 18. Alliance that included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
Down
  1. 1. Germany’s battle strategy that called for a quick defeat of france, then attacking Russia in the east.
  2. 2. This country belonged to the Central Powers during WWI.
  3. 4. Battle strategy in which soldiers fought from deep pits dug into the earth.
  4. 6. Armored combat vehicle used for the first time in WWI.
  5. 7. This was sent to Mexico hoping it would ally itself with germany against the US.
  6. 10. Stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border.
  7. 11. One-sided information used by a government to persuade the public.
  8. 14. Leader of Russia up until 1917.
  9. 15. New weapon that caused choking, blindness, and death.