Pre war, the alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
100
This archduke's assassination is considered to start a chain of events that began the Great War.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
100
The term used to describe the fighting that took place from man made ditches on each side of the battle field. In this type of fighting, armies traded huge losses of human life for pitifully small land gains.
What is trench warfare?
100
Germany's plan to quickly attack and defeat France before slow moving Russia could mobilize troops and attack Germany from the other side.
What is the Schleiffen Plan?
100
The 'M' in M.A.I.N., is building up military power and keeping an army prepared for war.
What is militarism?
200
Pre war, the alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia.
What is Triple Entente?
200
This 19-year-old Serbian terrorist killed the archduke and the archduke's wife.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
200
This term describes the area in between the trenches of the opposing armies during trench warfare.
What is "no man's land?"
200
In order to attack France, Germany invaded this neutral country which lead to Great Britain declaring war on the Germans.
What is Belgium?
200
The 'A' in M.A.I.N., an agreement between two or more countries to fight alongside each other against a common enemy.
What is an alliance?
300
At the beginning of the war, the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Turks. The name was derived from Germany and Austria-Hungary's location in Europe.
What is Central Powers?
300
The name of the Serbian Terrorist Group that the assassin Gavrilo Princip belonged to.
What is the Black Hand?
300
When soldiers tried to advance through no man's land, they were typically met by these weapons that accounted for an extremely high number of war deaths.
What are machine guns?
300
This term describes the region where the bloody stalemate between France and Germany took place.
What is the Western Front?
300
The 'I' in M.A.I.N., a term used to describe a strong country who dominates other countries politically, economically, or socially. Think 'Scramble for Africa.'
What is imperialism?
400
During the start of the war, the alliance between Great, Britain, France, and Russia. Pre war, it was known as the Triple Entente.
What is the Allied Powers, or Allies ?
400
The city in which Gavrilo Princip assassinated the archduke Fanz Ferdinand and his wife.
What is Sarajevo?
400
Because of this, staying put in the trenches did not mean safer conditions for soldiers. Shells of all calibers raining in brought death into the trenches.
What is artillery fire?
400
This river is where the Allies attacked Germany at the beginning of the war, ruining the Schlieffen Plan by allowing Russia to invade Germany's East Coast. One of the last battles of the war takes place on this same river nearly 4 years later.
What is the Marne River?
400
The 'N' in M.A.I.N., a deep devotion to one's nation.
What is nationalism?
500
Although originally apart of the Triple Alliance, this country joined the other side during the war after accusing its former partners for unjustly starting the war.
What is Italy?
500
The empire in which the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was an heir to the throne.
What is the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
500
Germany lost hope for a quick victory, lost over half a million lives, but gained this amount of land due to trench warfare.
What is about 4 miles?
500
This term describes the type of war that Germany wanted to avoid. It meant they would have to fight on each of its borders at the same time.