Causes
What was the spark of WW1?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Year WW1 started.
What is 1914.
This weapon can fire over one hundred rounds (bullets) in less than a minute.
What is a machine gun.
Year the US entered WW1.
What is 1917.
There was a temporary truce on which day in 1914?
a. Valentine's Day
b. June 6th
c. Easter Sunday
d. Christmas Day
d. Christmas Day
On Christmas Day, 1914, German and British troops called a temporary truce and serenaded each other with Christmas carols from their opposing trenches. There were even a few calls for visits across the "No Man's Land" and small gifts such as whisky and cigars were exchanged. When British commanders learned of the impromptu cease-fire they were enraged and vowed that the "Christmas Truce" would not be repeated in following years.
List the four global causes of WW1.
What is MAIN: militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism
Year WW1 ended.
Policy the US followed during the beginning of the war.
What is neutrality.
What was the name of Germany's plan at the beginning of World War I to deliver a knock-out blow to the French and then turn all of its resources on the more slowly mobilizing Russian army?
a. Von Moltke Plan
b. Blitzkrieg Plan
c. Schlieffen Plan
d. Hindenburg Plan
d. Schlieffen
The Schlieffen Plan was Germany's strategic blueprint for the beginning of World War I. The Germans, however, encountered unexpected resistance as they marched through Belgium to attack France from the North. This delay allowed British and French forces to mobilize sufficiently to halt the German advance on Paris at the First Battle of the Marne in September, 1914.
What countries made up the Allied Powers/ Triple Entente?
What are Great Britain, France, and Russia.
Chemical Warfare resulted in the mass production of these defense mechanisms.
What are gas masks.
The ship that was sunk by Germany that contained American civilians.
What is the Lusitania.
What country lost the most lives in World War I?
a. Austria
b. Soviet Union
c. France
d. Germany
d. Germany
With approximately 1.8 Million total fatalities, Germany lost the the most lives during World War I. The Soviet Union was next with approximately 1.7 Million total fatalities, followed by France with approximately 1.385 Million total fatalities.
What countries made up the Central Powers/ Triple Alliance?
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire.
Name of the Serbian nationalist who killed the Archduke of Austria-Hungary.
Who is Gavrilo Princip.
Tracked, armored fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities first used by the British in World War I.
What are tanks.
Note that was sent to Mexico offering a military alliance with Germany. Promised Mexico they would reconquer areas in the U.S. lost from Mexican American War.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram.
What were American soldiers called during WW1?
a. Paperboys
b. Minutemen
c. Doughboys
d. Milkmen
C. Doughboys
Although best known from its usage for American troops in the First World War, the term "doughboy" as applied to the infantry of the U.S. Army first appears in accounts of the Mexican-American War of 1846-48.
City in which the assassination took place.
What is Sarajevo.
Revolution that took place in Russia during the war.
What is the Bolshevik Revolution
Naval weapon used during sea battles and tactic.
What are submarines. Unrestricted submarine warfare.
Belief that merchant and civilian ships can travel in international waters, whether during war or peace, without being harmed.
What was Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan when he ran for re-election in 1916?
a. He Kept Us Out of War
b. Read My Lips, No New Taxes
c. Peace, Progress, Prosperity
d. Don't Swap Horses in the Middle of the Stream
a. He Kept Us Out of War
Woodrow Wilson's campaign slogan was "He kept us out of war" when he ran for re-election in 1916 against Charles Evans Hughes. Five months after his re-election, he asked congress to declare war on the Central Powers.