Causes of WWI
Course of WWI
Consequences of WWI
Technology and tactics
Miscellaneous
100
Historians use this 4-letter acronym to quickly refer to the long term causes of WWI.
What is MAIN?
100
The miles of battlefields stretching across France and Belgium in World War I were collectively known as this
What is the Western Front?
100
This palace outside Paris gave its name to the treaty that ended World War I
What is Versailles?
100
This weapon could fire hundreds of bullets per minute, making infantry charges extremely deadly
What is a machine gun?
100
World War I is best understood as which of the following types of war?
civil war
war between states
guerrilla
What is a war between states?
200
This image of Kaiser Wilhelm inspecting the German army mostly reflects this long term cause of WWI
What is militarism?
200
Stalemate on the Western Front led to this type of warfare, where opposing sides fought from fixed defensive positions
What is trench warfare?
200
This country entered World War I late, helped the Allies win, and saw no fighting on its own territory
What is the United States?
200
First used on a large scale in World War I, this weapon caused painful deaths and required soldiers to wear masks
What is poison gas?
200
This country had the world's largest and most powerful navy prior to WWI
What is Britain?
300
Historians use this visual metaphor to explain the relationship between short and long term causes of WWI
What is the powder keg and spark?
300
This 1916 battle on the Western Front became infamous for massive casualties and limited gains
What is the Battle of the Somme?
300
This country surrendered in 1917 to Germany and Austria-Hungary due to a civil war and lost huge amounts of territory
What is Russia?
300
Britain used this naval tactic to cut off Germany’s access to food and supplies
What is a blockade?
300
Spreading rapidly in 1918, this pandemic killed more people than World War I itself
What is the Spanish flu?
400
Some historians suggest that this diplomatic move by Germany emboldened Austria-Hungary to threaten Serbia in July of 1914
What is the 'blank cheque'?
400
This military strategy aims to wear down the enemy through continuous losses over time
What is attrition?
400
After World War I, these two European countries controlled former Ottoman territories in the Middle East under the mandate system
What are Britain and France?
400
Germany relied on these naval vessels to attack Allied shipping in the Atlantic
What are U-boats?
400
These German battle plans accounted for a two-front war, with Germany quickly defeating France and then redeploying to face Russia
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
500
These diplomatic crises in 1905 and 1911 ended in German humiliation and are seen by historians as contributing to the outbreak of World War I
What are the Moroccan Crises?
500
In 1915, Allied forces launched this failed campaign on a peninsula to try to knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war
What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
500
Following World War I, this country emerged from the former Ottoman Empire; Istanbul remained its largest city
What is Turkey?
500
This risky tactic involved firing artillery simultaneously with an infantry attack, with exploding shells just ahead of advancing troops
What is a creeping barrage?
500
This country joined the Allies in World War I and expanded its influence by seizing German territories in China and the Pacific
What is Japan?