World Wars

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Across
  1. 3. the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
  2. 4. is generally defined as a political movement that embraces far-right nationalism and the forceful suppression of any opposition, all overseen by an authoritarian government.
  3. 8. (especially in the former Soviet Union) a government plan for economic development over five years. The first such plan in the Soviet Union was inaugurated in 1928.
  4. 9. a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.
  5. 11. Socialism is an economic and political system where workers own the general means of production (i. e. farms, factories, tools, and raw materials).
  6. 12. is the dissemination of information—facts, arguments, rumours, half-truths, or lies—to influence public opinion.
  7. 13. temporary stopping of open acts of warfare by agreement between the opponents : truce.
  8. 14. compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service : draft During the war the armed forces were heavily dependent on conscription.
Down
  1. 1. The period of declining and lower economic activity in the worldwide economy from the late 1920s through the 1930s. In the United States, it began with the stock market crash in October 1929 and was characterized by a decline in business activity into 1933.
  2. 2. the action of inflating something or the condition of being inflated.
  3. 5. A pandemic of influenza A (H1N1) in 1918-19 that caused the highest number of known flu deaths. More than 500,000 people died in the United States, and 20 million to 50 million people may have died worldwide.
  4. 6. describe rapid, excessive, and out-of-control general price increases in an economy. While inflation is a measure of the pace of rising prices for goods and services, hyperinflation is rapidly rising inflation, typically measuring more than 50% per month.
  5. 7. a war between the allies (Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal, Montenegro) and the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Bulgaria) from 1914 to 1918.
  6. 10. a union or association formed for mutual benefit, especially between countries or organizations.