Start of WWI
The crisis began when this man was assassinated in Serbia.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
The nickname for German submarines.
U-boats
This treaty blamed Germany for World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
The number of waves the Spanish flu struck.
Two
The leader of the Bolsheviks.
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Vladimir Lenin)
This man was a member of the Black Hand and was responsible for the assassination.
Gavrilo Princep
This weapon blinded and choked soldiers or caused burns and blisters. It could be fatal.
Poison Gas
The Zimmerman note led to this country declaring war on Germany and joining the Allies.
United States
People in this age group were hit the hardest by the Spanish flu.
Young adults age 20-40
This man was a self-proclaimed "holy man" who influenced the tsarina until nobles killed him on December 29,1916.
Gregory Rasputin
This country was outraged by Germany invading Belgium and declared war on Germany on August 4th.
Britain
Was a type of war in which men dug trenches and fought over a few hundred yards of territory called "no man's land".
Trench Warfare
This treaty ended Russian participation in World War I.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Killed more people than this event.
World War I
Civil war raged between these two groups referred to as "Reds" and "Whites".
Bolsheviks (Reds) and Mensheviks (Whites)
An alliance between these countries formed the Central Powers.
Germany and Austria-Hungary
These were developed during the war. They rolled on sturdy tracks to navigate through barbed wire and were designed to cross "no man's land."
Tanks
The Great War came to an end on this day.
November 11, 1918
The nickname for the Spanish flu.
The "forgotten pandemic"
This man became the dictator of Russia after Lenin's death in 1924.
Joseph Stalin
Daily Double: These countries made up the Allied Powers at the start of the war.
Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia
These are large gas-filled balloons, used to bomb the English coast before the use of airplanes.
Zeppelins
The Paris Peace Conference created this. It included more than 40 nations and its goal was to prevent future wars.
League of Nations
Daily Double: Theories suggest the flu may have originated in any one these countries.
United States, France, Austria, or China
The Bolsheviks executed this family, thus ending its 300 year dynasty.
Romanov Family