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- 3. of Power: A situation in which nations have roughly equal military strength, preventing any one country from dominating others.
- 5. A strong pride in and loyalty to one’s nation, sometimes leading to conflict with other countries.
- 9. Objector: A person who refuses to serve in the military because of religious or moral beliefs.
- 11. Rickenbacker: Famous Fighter pilot of World War 1
- 14. Rickenbacker: America’s top fighter pilot ace during World War I.
- 16. Trade: The exchange of goods, people, and resources across the Atlantic Ocean between the Americas, Europe, and Africa
- 20. Shock: A complete emotional collapse from which man never recovered
- 21. Powers: Ireland, Great Britain, Russia, Romania, Serbia, Greece, Italy, France, Belgium, Portugal
- 23. The belief that a country should build and maintain a strong military and be prepared to use it aggressively.
- 25. Information, often biased or misleading, used by a government to influence public opinion and gain support for a cause, especially during wartime.
- 27. Expeditionary Force: The U.S. military forces sent to fight in Europe during World War I under the command of John J. Pershing.
- 28. Trenches: Connected the three kinds of trenches
- 30. Goods that are illegal to trade or transport, especially supplies sent to a nation at war.
- 32. A product or resource sent from one country to another for sale.
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- 1. Note: Secret Telegram from Germany to Mexico that was intercepted and decoded by British agents
- 2. Blockade: An effort by one country to prevent supplies from reaching its enemy in response to being blockaded.
- 4. pledge: A promise not to sink merchant vessels “without warning and without saving human lives”
- 6. Ferdinand: A situation in which nations have roughly equal military strength, preventing any one country from dominating others.
- 7. a British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915, causing American deaths and increasing U.S. anger toward Germany.
- 8. Service Act: A 1917 law that required American men to register for the draft to build up the U.S. Army during World War I.
- 10. Triple Entente: The alliance formed before World War I between France, Russia, and Great Britain.
- 12. Woodrow Wilson: Who campaigned on the slogan: “He Kept Us Out the War”
- 13. Countries: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Albania
- 15. To leave one’s country of region to settle in another; to move
- 17. York: A highly decorated American soldier who captured many German soldiers during World War I.
- 18. Allied Powers: The nations that fought together against the Central Powers in World War I, including Britain, France, Russia, and later the United States.
- 19. System: A naval strategy in which merchant ships traveled in groups protected by warships to defend against submarine attacks.
- 22. An agreement between opposing sides to stop fighting, such as the one that ended World War I on November 11, 1918.
- 24. Warfare: Armies fought for mere yards of ground
- 26. Surrounded by enemy forces to prevent goods, supplies, or people from entering or leaving.
- 29. Shallow trenches in “no man’s land” that allows access to machine-gun nests, grenade- throwing positions, and observation posts
- 31. Powers: Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman empire, Germany