WW1

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Across
  1. 4. The countries, including France, Britain, Russia, and later the U.S., that fought against the Central Powers.
  2. 5. The assassin who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
  3. 9. A British ship sunk by Germany in 1915, killing 1,198 people and leading to U.S. involvement in the war.
  4. 12. A strategy where merchant ships traveled together for protection from German submarines.
  5. 13. The agreement in 1918 to stop fighting, ending World War I.
  6. 14. The dangerous area between opposing trenches, where soldiers risked death.
  7. 15. An international group created after World War I to promote peace, but the U.S. didn't join.
  8. 16. The countries of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I.
  9. 17. A part of the Treaty of Versailles that blamed Germany for starting World War I.
  10. 19. A deadly flu pandemic in 1918 that killed millions of people worldwide.
  11. 21. The German Emperor during World War I.
Down
  1. 1. Information used to influence public opinion and encourage support for the war.
  2. 2. Deadly new weapons used in World War I, like machine guns, poison gas, tanks, and airplanes.
  3. 3. Payments Germany had to make to the Allies for damages caused during the war.
  4. 6. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace, including the idea of a League of Nations.
  5. 7. The 1919 peace agreement that officially ended World War I and punished Germany.
  6. 8. A secret German message asking Mexico to join the war against the U.S., which helped bring the U.S. into the war.
  7. 10. A style of fighting where soldiers dug trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire.
  8. 11. The heir to Austria-Hungary whose assassination in 1914 sparked World War I.
  9. 18. The 1917 uprising that overthrew Russia’s Tsar and led to a communist government.
  10. 20. A 1917 U.S. law that drafted men into military service for World War I.