World War I Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors (plural) (11)
  2. 7. A policy of extending your rule over foreign countries (11)
  3. 10. Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (5)
  4. 11. A ___ between the allies and the Central Powers from 1914 to 1918 (9)
  5. 12. A struggle between competing entities in which neither side is able to win (13)
  6. 13. The state of being allied or confederated (8)
  7. 14. A political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society (9)
  8. 15. An addition that extends a main building (5)

Down

  1. 1. A political orientation of a people or a government to maintain a strong ___ force and to be (10)
  2. 2. Information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause (10)
  3. 3. In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them (13)
  4. 4. A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms (9)
  5. 6. Author of the first novel by an African American that was published in the United States (6)
  6. 8. Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "___ of (12)
  7. 9. An army unit that uses big guns (9)
  8. 13. A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia (7)