Before the War
Western Entente
Central Powers
Russia
After the War
100

The assassination of this Austrian Noble provoked the invasion of Serbia by the Dual Monarchy.

What is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

100

These three powers made up the Triple Entente at the beginning of the war.

What is Russia, France, and Britain?

100
These three great powers made up the Triple Alliance.

What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire?

100

This Russian revolution...overshadowed by its more famous cousin...deposed Tsar Nicholas II, setting up a provisional democratic government instead of a monarch.

What is the February Revolution?

100

The Treaty of Versailles demilitarized this industrial heartland of Germany.

What is the Rhineland?

200

In this previous conflict, the new German Empire humiliated France and set themselves up as a major player in Europe.

What is the Franco-Prussian War?

200

The sinking of this American-boarded British ship set the stage for the U.S.'s entry into the war against the Central Powers.

What is the Lusitania?

200

This disgraced military commander and then later de-facto military dictator rose to power in Germany during the final stages of the war.

What is General Erich Ludendorff?

200

This treaty, signed by the Bolsheviks, ceded many lands to Germany in exchange for an end to hostilities.

What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

200

This previously partitioned state, established by Germany during the war, gained independence and went on to be a major power holder in eastern Europe after the war.

What is Poland?

300

This invention, developed just after the turn of the century, opened a whole new theatre of combat other than merely on land and sea.

What is the aeroplane?

300

This new war machine was developed and used by Britain and France to great effect, famously utilized during the Battle of the Somme.

What is the Tank?

300

This new device of war was used originally by the Germans to great effect and was later banned from use in the Geneva Convention.

What is chemical weapons?

300

This communist political faction took control of the Russian heartlands shortly following the October Revolution.

What is the Bolsheviks?

300

Due to the other great powers cannibalizing their industry to stay afloat during the conflict, this untouched country entered a period of economic growth and prosperity.

What is the United States of America?

400

This new take on an old weapon drastically increased the firepower of your everyday infantryman, and was first seen in use in 1884.

What is the machinegun/automatic rifle?

400

The so called "National Schism" split this country in two, with one faction staying neutral to the Central Powers and the other opening a new front against the Central Powers.

What is Greece?

400

This rather old nautical invention saw its first widespread military use by the German Empire during WWI.

What is the submarine?

400

Entente powers invaded this northern city in Russia to secure old military shipments along with combating Bolshevik and German control in the area.

What is Arkhangelsk?

400

Hungary, after going through a communist revolution in 1919, was partitioned by this treaty.

What is the Treaty of Trianon?

500

Southeastern Europe changed dramatically over the course of these two wars which preceded WWI by less than half a decade.

What is the Balkan Wars?

500

This political doctrine of punitive action towards a country which had wronged your country previously guided France before and throughout the war.

What is Revanchism?

500

Conspiracy between Germany and the Ottoman Minister of War led to this nautical military action, dragging the neutral Ottoman Empire into war with Russia and by extension the rest of the Entente.

What is the Black Sea Raid?

500

This diasporic volunteer force of the Russian Empire famously took control of the trans-Siberian rail network, later being evacuated to their new home state in Europe through Vladivostok.

What is the Czechoslovak Legion?

500

A breakaway-only-in-name from the Ottoman Empire beat back the allied powers who wished to colonize it during this bizarre conflict of liberation.

What is the Turkish War of Independence?

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