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- 4. It was the headquarters of the invading German army in the Franco-German War of 1870–71 and was occupied by the Germans again in World War I.
- 5. Russian general distinguished for the “Brusilov breakthrough” on the Eastern Front against Austria-Hungary (June–August 1916), which aided Russia’s Western allies at a crucial time during World War I.
- 6. any naval vessel that is capable of propelling itself beneath the water as well as on the water’s surface
- 8. British prime minister (1916–22) who dominated the British political scene in the latter part of World War I. He was raised to the peerage in the year of his death.
- 10. In World War I it became the main line of Italian defense after the Austrian breakthrough at Caporetto in 1917.
- 11. a heavily armed and armored combat vehicle
- 12. Germany's strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns
- 13. sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
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- 1. A costly and largely unsuccessful Allied offensive on the Western Front during World War I. The horrific bloodshed on the first day of the battle became a metaphor for futile and indiscriminate slaughter.
- 2. an agreement for surrender
- 3. battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war
- 7. A World War I engagement in which the French repulsed a major German offensive. It was one of the longest, bloodiest, and most-ferocious battles of the war. Some 300,000 were killed.
- 8. founder of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), inspirer and leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and the architect, builder, and first head (1917–24) of the Soviet state
- 9. British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister rallied the British people during World War II and led his country from the brink of defeat to victory
- 11. By the terms of this treaty, Hungary was shorn of at least two-thirds of its former territory and two-thirds of its inhabitants