The German Chief of the General Staff from 1891 to 1906, who had great plans to defeat the French before the Russians from 1905-06.
Who is Alfred von Schlieffen
100
From October to November 1914, it ended the Race to the Sea, and was firmly entrenched in memory with the Menin Gate and the Kindermord.
What is the battle of 1st Ypres.
100
A term associated with the complete mobilization of a society for warfare, and the inclusion of the enemy's society as a viable target.
What is total war.
100
The westernmost colony in Africa in 1914, which featured a key wireless station at Kamina.
What is Togoland?
100
A passenger liner was sunk by a U-boat on7 May 1915, killing ~1200 including 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
200
The commander-in-chief of the French Army from 1911 to 1916. His nicknames were "the crab" and "poppa".
Who is Joseph Joffre
200
On 1 July 1916, more British soldiers were to die in a single day than in any other in history. Almost 20,000 were killed in action, among the 60,000 casualties.
What is the Battle of the Somme.
200
The systematic destruction of an ethnicity. First coined by theorist Raphael Lemkin in 1944 from the Greek term for race or people and the Latin term to kill.
What is genocide?
200
The German colony in which Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck came to fame as a guerrilla commander.
What is German East Africa?
200
This German cruiser was very successful at commerce raiding in the Indian ocean from August to November 1914.
What is the SMS Emden?
300
He killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914.
Who is Gavrilo Princip.
300
This battle from 26-30 August in East Prussia saw the Russian army stopped dead in its tracks and the canonization of Hindenberg and Ludendorff as military leaders par excellence.
What is the Battle of Tannenberg.
300
The concept associated with Paul Kennedy that an empire can become too large and expensive to maintain for it to be worth the resources to maintain it.
What is imperial over-reach (or over-stretch).
300
The British concept that certain ethnicities (particularly Punjabi and Gurkhas) of the sub-continent of India are better warriors.
What is martial race theory?
300
Along with torpedo boats and submarines, these prevented ships from operating close of the enemies shores.
What are Naval Mines?
400
A staunch disciplinarian, he was the chief of staff of the Italian army from 1914-1917.
Who is Luigi Cadorna
400
It featured the use of Parisien taxis to bring the poilus to the battlefield and stopped the Schlieffen-Moltke plan at the gates of the capital.
What is the Battle of the Marne.
400
A type of international relations analysis which favours states as unitary, rational, actors pursuing self-interest.
What is realism?
400
The major land battle for Japan and Germany at the start of the First World War (31 October to 7 November 1914). Also an internationally marketed Chinese beer.
What is the Siege of Tsingtao?
400
The declaration of this led to a huge spike in Entente shipping losses in early 1917.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
500
He commanded the British Grand Fleet at the Battle of Jutland. Historians argue he zigged when he should have zagged.
Who is Sir John Jellicoe.
500
This battle of 24 October to 19 November 1917 saw the Austro-Hungarian army rout the Italian army, pressing it back from the Isonzo in total disarray. The Italian chief-of-staff, notorious for his harsh discipline, was finally forced to resign.
What is the Battle of Caporetto?
500
The concept that technology in and of itself is not the driving force in military effectiveness, but the amalgamation of old doctrines and techniques with new tools.
What is the revolution in military affairs?
500
A key port on the Persian gulf at the far reaches of Ottoman empire in 1914.
What is Basra?
500
He commanded the German cruiser squadron which first made contact with the British on 31 May 1916, beginning the Battle of Jutland.