WW1

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Across
  1. 3. Gardens the Food Administration asked Americans to eat less, and encouraged them to raise their own vegetables in their own small gardens,, Allied troops and civilians depended on American farmers as well for food from these gardens.
  2. 6. Draft to make the Army larger, Congress passed the Selective Service Act as a way to bring people into the Army.
  3. 11. an agreement to stop fighting.
  4. 13. Zimmerman Telegram was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join an alliance with Germany in the event of the United States entering World War I against Germany.
  5. 14. devotion to one's country.
  6. 15. Powers Germany, Australia-Hungary, and Turkey.
  7. 16. Technology poisonous gas, trench warfare, tanks, submarines, airplanes, gas masks.
  8. 19. Land the land not held by either side but filled with barbed wire and land mines, or bombs buried in the ground.
Down
  1. 1. the building of a strong military to frighten or defeat other countries.
  2. 2. Boys American soldiers were called this, it is an informal term for a member of the United States Army or Marine Corps
  3. 4. of Versailles the Allied Powers were victorious in WWI when this was signed in France.
  4. 5. to create more supplies for the soldiers, the government set limits on the amount of some goods civilians could have, such as meat.
  5. 7. Warfare this new battle tactic involved soldiers on both sides digging big holes in the ground for protection when fighting, barbed wire protected the front of these holes, the middle ground between the holes was called no-man's land.
  6. 8. Mondays and Wheatless Wednesdays although the United States did not have food rationing in World War I, it relied heavily on propaganda campaigns to persuade the public to moderate their food consumption, through slogans such as "Food Will Win the War",the United States Food Administration under Herbert Hoover reduced national consumption by 15%
  7. 9. at the beginning of WWI, the United States took on this idea, choosing to stay neutral and let the other countries fight.
  8. 10. Wilson president during WWI, he wanted to stay neutral during WWI, however, when Germany attacked the U.S. and tried to turn Mexico against us, the U.S. decided to join the Allied Powers in World War I.
  9. 11. Powers United States, Russia, Serbia, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy.
  10. 12. information designed to help or hurt a cause, information used to shape people's thinking.
  11. 17. the building of empires by adding colonies.
  12. 18. partnerships with other countries.