First battle in which poison gas was used, by German forces.
What is the Second Battle of Ypres?
100
Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, assassinated in Sarajevo in the summer of 1914.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
Common disease caused by wet socks, wet boots, and wet trenches; may result in gangrene and require amputation.
What is trench foot?
100
Countries direct all resources to a common military goal.
What is Total War?
200
Extension of power and economic control over territories beyond a metropolitan centre.
What is imperialism?
200
The tank was first used in this battle which lasted months and resulted in the bloodiest day of the war: 20,000 British soldiers were killed on its first day.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
200
French Premier, Minister of war, Big moustache, nicknamed "Le Tigre" at the Peace Conference in Paris in 1919.
Who is Georges Clémenceau?
200
Rodents living in trenches that spread disease.
What is rats?
200
Document signed by Germany and Russia in 1917 effectively ending Imperial Russian participation in the war.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
300
The glorification of army-generated ideals and values and, by extension, the glorification and expansion of armies.
What is militarism?
300
Belgian and French forces opened the dykes and flooded the battlefield in this early battle.
What is the Battle of Yser?
300
Directed major battles in the Hundred Days' offensive, Australian Lieutenant General of German Jewish background.
Who is John Monash?
300
Area separating opposing sides' trenches.
What is No Man's Land?
300
Kaiser Wilhelm's favourite dog breed, a symbol for German culture in the rise of wartime anti-German hysteria.
What is the dachshund?
400
Political and diplomatic agreements between nations, both secret and published.
What is alliances?
400
Decisive German victories on eastern Front, effectively destroyed much of the Russia's first mobilized forces, and resulted in the suicide of General Samsonov.
What is the Battle of Tannenberg, and the Battle of Masurian Lakes?
400
German chief of general staff, relieved from duty after disaster at Battle of Verdun.
Who is Erich v. Falkenheyn?
400
At dawn and dusk, ritual requiring soldiers to rise from trenches to watch for enemy attacks.
What is Stand to Arms?
400
German Modernist Artist who drew/painted horrific scenes of death and destruction at the battlefront.
Who is Otto Dix?
500
The Serbian nationalist terrorist organisation that planned and executed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is The Black Hand?
500
Major Turkish victory in the Dardanelles Campaign against primarily ANZAC forces in 1915?
What is the battle of Gallipoli?
500
French commander at Verdun, famous for refusing a retreat, eventually will become the head of state under the Vichy Regime after 1940.
Who is Marshall Philippe Pétain?
500
Preserved, canned meat given to British troops on the battlefront.
What is Bully Beef?
500
One of the finest scholars of the First World War, himself a Second World War veteran, died in June 2012.