World War One

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Across
  1. 3. Country that first used gas as a weapon.
  2. 4. What country blamed Serbia for an assassination?
  3. 6. Soldiers used _______ guns for rapid fire rounds.
  4. 7. A popular type of gun in World War One was the ____ Rifle.
  5. 9. When soldiers' feet swelled up from standing knee-deep in water for days.
  6. 10. Most soldiers were infested with ____.
  7. 11. Placed in front of trenches to make running at them difficult.
  8. 16. Land conquered by neither side; both sides trying to capture it.
  9. 18. Type of gas used in warfare.
  10. 19. Caused by artillery shells and bombs and were all over the battlefield.
  11. 20. Helped hold up the trench walls.
  12. 21. The name of the German plan to "sneak" through Belgium.
  13. 22. Soldiers put ____ boards in the trenches to protect feet from water and mud.
  14. 24. Both sides had them, they were used by soldiers to hide and shoot from.
  15. 26. Site of the first gas attack.
  16. 28. What crawled on the soldiers in the trenches as they slept?
Down
  1. 1. Low walls in front of the trenches.
  2. 2. Who was Germany sneaking through Belgium to attack?
  3. 4. Caused worse wounds than bullets due to shrapnel.
  4. 5. Small bombs that you throw.
  5. 8. Canada was part of the _____________, so they joined the war.
  6. 11. Used to stab an enemy when they were too close to shoot.
  7. 12. Friendships between countries.
  8. 13. How many kilometers away was long-range artillery?
  9. 14. The first ever ___ attack was launched April 22nd 1915.
  10. 15. _____ filled the bottoms of the trenches and helped cause Trenchfoot.
  11. 17. Who was assassinated, triggering World War One.
  12. 23. Who did Britain join the war to protect?
  13. 25. Length of hair of soldiers.
  14. 27. Were near the bottom of trenches so the soldiers could get up high enough to shoot.