The Great War
Pre-WWI Tensions
Diplomacy
Russia
The Age of Anxiety
100
This static type of warfare characterized the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
100
The German plan for fighting a war on two fronts simultaneously.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
100
This international collective security organization was created by the Versailles Treaty (but the US never joined).
What is the League of Nations?
100
This Russian tsar is considered one of the greatest in history, in part, because he emancipated Russia's serfs in 1861.
Who is Alexander II?
100
This 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque detailed the horrors of trench warfare.
What is "All Quiet on the Western Front"
200
This German naval policy eventually brought the United States into the war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
200
This statesman's resignation in 1890 led to the disintegration of the Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
200
This provision of the Versailles Treaty placed sole blame for WWI on Germany.
What is Article 231 (the "War Guilt Clause")?
200
This event was THE major immediate cause of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
What is World War I?
200
This 19th century German philosopher wrote that "God is dead" while his anti-Enlightenment views reflected post-WWI pessimism.
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
300
This 1916 battle was the bloodiest of the war: over 1 million casualties!
What is the Battle of the Somme?
300
Germany's unconditional support for Austria-Hungary against Serbia in July, 1914 is known as this.
What is the "blank check"?
300
President Woodrow Wilson proposed this, a blueprint for ending World War I.
What are the Fourteen Points?
300
This tragic 1905 event occurred after people peacefully came to St. Petersburg asking the tsar for help.
What is "Bloody Sunday"?
300
This writer's "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis" portrayed helpless individuals destroyed by inexplicable forces.
Who is Franz Kafka?
400
Daily Double!!!!
The British and ANZAC forces failed to take this peninsula; it was the key to crushing the Ottoman Empire.
400
This 1911 crisis over a French colony in North Africa nearly led to a general war among European states.
What is the Moroccan Crisis?
400
The interception of this secret message revealed a German proposal for a military alliance with Mexico against the United States.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
400
After the tsar was overthrown, local governments in Russia were lead by these councils, who would later lend their name to the nation itself.
What are soviets?
400
This poet wrote "The Wasteland" in 1922, depicting a world of growing desolation
Who is T.S. Elliot?
500
The first of two battles named for this river foiled Germany's invasion of France and saved the Allied cause.
What is the Marne?
500
The creation of these new super-battleships resulted in a frantic naval arms race between Britain and Germany.
What are Dreadnoughts?
500
This 1917 British statement seemed to favor the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
500
He was the leader of the Provisional Government in Russia during much of 1917.
Who is Alexander Kerensky?
500
This German pessimist wrote "Decline of the West," in which he saw Europe being surpassed by Asian civilization.
Who is Oswald Spengler?
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