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 A crossword dealing with facts about the first world war
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WORLD WAR I


The answers below concern events and persons of significance during World War I, as well as the events both preceding the Great War, and those events in its aftermath.
Across:
 6The name of the squadron of American pilots who flew in the French Air Service prior to the United States entry into World War I
 7US Marine Corps legends holds the nickname "Devil Dogs" originated at this place
 10Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen is better known as the
 11The first large scale use of gas as a weapon occured on January 31, 1915, west of Warsaw during this inconclusive battle
 12The founder of the Republic Turkey, he held the rank of Lt. Colonel when the Ottoman Empire entered the war in 1914
 13The creation of this international organization was a centerpiece of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points of Peace
 14The author of A Farewell To Arms, he was an ambulance driver for the Red Cross on he Italian Front
 18This film chronicles the experiences of T. E. Lawrence during the Arab Revolt of World War I
 22As First Sea Lord From 1904-1910, he helped modernize the British Navy prior to World War I
 23Lorraine and this territory were returned to France in 1919.
 24The anglicized abbreviation of the word Unterseeboot
 25After the notorious sinking of this passenger ship in 1915, Germany promised not to target passenger liners
 26He was the highest scoring allied ace in World War I, with seventy five kills
 27This Kingdom was the first to sign an armstice on September 29, 1918
 28The largest naval battle of World War I
Down:
 1The popular name for the first African-American Regiment during World War I
 2The British Army endured the bloodiest day in its history, suffering 57,470 casualties and 19,240 dead on July 1st, 1916, the first day of this battle
 3The treaty ending World War I between Germany and the Allied Powers was signed in this palace near Paris
 4The Austro-Hungarian/German at this battle eventually led to the formation of the Supreme War Council, which coordinated Allied military efforts
 5This intercepted document outlined Germany's plan for Mexico to enter the war against the United States, should the United States enter the Great War
 8On September 1914, this Japanese seaplane carrier conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids.
 9This city was declared a free city at the end of the Great War
 15This campaign, which took place between April 1915 and January 1916, was a joint British and French operation that was mounted to capture Istanbul and open a sea route to Russia
 16The commander of the German East African campain in World War I
 17This battle between the Austro-Hungarian army and Serbian forces marked the first Allied victory of the First World War
 19The author of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front
 20Trading off armour or firepower for speed, the HMS Invincible was the first of this class
 21This Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne on June 28, 1914, which provided the immediate cause of World War I
 29As part of this federal statute, Puerto Ricans were given US citizenship when they were drafted to fight in the First World War
 30Leader of the Bolshevik Party, he gained power by promising to pull Russia out of World War I
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