Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors (plural)
- 5 Across
- A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
- 7 Across
- Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR
- 10 Across
- A ___ between the allies and the Central Powers from 1914 to 1918
- 11 Across
- A struggle between competing entities in which neither side is able to win
- 12 Across
- The state of being allied or confederated
- 13 Across
- A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society
- 14 Across
- An addition that extends a main building
- 15 Across
- A political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong ___ force and to be
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- Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause
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- In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them
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- A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
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- Author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States
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- Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "___ of
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- An army unit that uses big guns
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- A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia
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