Causes of War
What were the main reasons WWI started?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, Assassination.
5x points if you correctly define each of the terms.
Keep base amount of points if one is wrong.
What type of gun changed the entire nature of trench warfare?
Machine gun.
400 bonus points if this is the first 100 point question chosen.
lose 200 points if it was not.
Propaganda was used to...
Make your own side look better, make the enemy look horrible.
Lose all points if you got this question wrong.
Who were the 'Allies'?
Britain, France, Russia - later US
What was the name of this alliance at the beginning of WWI?
Bonus 500 points if you pronounce it properly.
When did WWI start and end?
1914-1918
Bonus 500 points if you state the month of each year respectively.
Bonus 1,000 points if you state the day and month of year respectively.
Which countries made up the tripple Alliance?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
Name the five key battles we studied throughout the topic.
Verdun, Somme, Passchendale, Tannenberg, Beersheba.
+100 points for each battle you can name the month and year it started.
Define censorship.
Purposefully redacting or removing information from the media so that the general public don't know the full truth.
Outline the Spring Offensive.
Heavy toll on both sides but Germany already feeling impact of the blockades.
Goal was to secure victory before US impact was felt.
Defeat of Russia = no more war on 2 fronts.
Essentially won by the Germans but the heavy losses meant they would inevitably lose.
Why was WWI the "war to end all wars"?
Everyone was involved, thought it would bring an end to the conflict between alliances.
Steal 200 points from another team.
Give 100 points (gets removed from your score for each team) to each other team if you get this wrong.
What were the nature of Alliances before the outbreak of WWI?
Underhanded, behind the scenes, hidden, secretive etc.
Psychological impacts
What were the four points of focus raised by Trevor Wilson in regard to women's involvement in the Great war.
Recruitment, new opportunities, effects of the war, fighting services.
bonus 100 points per focus if you can provide an example for each.
Why did the US join the war?
Germany sunk the Lusitania, killing 124 Americans in 1915.
1917, Germans brought back unrestricted submarine warfare. Risked going into US water - US joins.
Explain the idea of Total War.
Every facet of the nation is involved in the war effort.
Attempted, missed, went back, got shot.
lose 300 points if you got this wrong.
Outline three different types of gases and why each was a heinous weapon.
Phosphene - sneaky, 2 days to kill
Mustard - odourless, stayed in mud, burned skin
Why did the Great War 'blur the lines' between the battlefront and homefront? Why was the homefront just as important as the soldiers in the trenches?
Although not physically in the war, everything on the homefront was done in effort to support the war cause.
War off attrition, whoever could outlast the enemy would most likely be the victor.
What was "Dolchstoss Legende"?
Stabbed in the back myth.
Double question points if you can briefly explain why Germans felt this way.
Was the total death toll for WWI?
More than 16 million people (soldiers and civilians)
Bonus 400 points if you can state how many people were wounded.
Outline the Schlieffen plan.
You need to include who, what, where and how long.
Take out France quickly, before Russia could arrive to support.
100 bonus points, when was the Schlieffen plan actually written?
Started dropping bricks and the likes on enemies.
invention of the timing device - could fit machine guns on planes which led to dogfights.
finally, started dropping bombs.
What were the main differences in opinion between historian Sandra M. Glibert and Trevor Wilson and what factors influenced their opinions to be different?
Sandra - believes most of the impact was felt after rather than at the time. revolutionised the role of women by paving the way for the future.
Trevor - women far more involved than we realise, used by the government as propaganda.
Both state that women were treated poorly upon the return of men.
Did Germany lose WWI or did the Allies win WWI?
A bit of both
Germany collapsed - internal struggles, british blockade, spring offensive, Verdun.
Allied victory - morale, US joining, superior tech, british blockade
What was the name of the treaty signed by Germany at the end of WWI?
+200 points if you can say why it was named this.