He was the Archduke who was assassinated in Sarajevo, sparking what would become the Great War.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
100
This was the German plan to fight a war in Europe. It was intended to prevent fighting a two front war against France and Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
100
This is an attempt to exterminate an entire ethnicity, like the Ottoman Empire attempted to do to the Armenian Christians.
What is genocide?
100
Great Britain did this in an effort to defeat Germany and it caused massive malnutrition and starvation among the German population.
What is blockade?
100
Germany invaded this neutral nation, pulling Great Britain into the war to protect its neutrality.
What is Belgium?
200
This was the first major battle of the Eastern Front, between Russia and Germany, and was the worst Russian defeat of the entire war.
What is the Battle of Tannenberg?
200
This battle halted the German advance on Paris and was the scene of the first trenches to appear on the battlefield in World War I.
What is the First Battle of the Marne?
200
This was a major cause of the Great War and turned a small, regional conflict into a war encompassing the entire globe.
What is imperialism?
200
When Germany sank this passenger liner using submarines the world was outraged, many thought the U.S. might even enter the war, but the U.S. remained neutral.
What is the Lusitania?
200
This nation violated its treaties of alliance on technicalities and joined the opposing nations in an attempt to acquire more territory.
What is Italy?
300
He was the German general in the Eastern Front who was so successful that he was eventually promoted to Commander-in-chief of the German military.
Who is Paul von Hindenburg?
300
Citizens from France, Germany, Britain, and others were convinced that their country would easily win the war (the French soldier was even believed to have a mythical, patriotic power known as elan) because they believed their nation was the best. This belief is better known as this major cause of World War I.
What is nationalism?
300
This was a major cause of the Great War and caused a small, regional conflict to engulf all of Europe.
What is alliances?
300
This major cause of the Great War is best exemplified by Germany and Great Britain's race to build massive dreadnoughts in the North Sea, leading to massive tension prior to the war.
What is militarism?
300
The informal alliance, prior to World War I, known as the Triple Entente was made up of these nations.
What is France, Great Britain, and Russia?
400
These were a series of more than 10 battles between Italy and Austria-Hungary along a river in the mountainous border between the two nations.
What are the Battles of the Isonzo?
400
He was the French Commander-in-Chief at the beginning of World War I and stuck to his belief in an overwhelming offensive action to win the war until it was almost too late for France.
Who is Joseph "Papa" Joffre?
400
Germany targeted this British imperial holding because its importance for Britain meant that they would commit numerous forces and resources to protect it.
What is India?
400
This was the largest sea battle of the war, the largest and last battleship battle in world history, and even though it was a tactical draw it gave Britain sea superiority for the remainder of the war.
What is the Battle of Jutland?
400
These were the three main nations that made up the Central Powers.
What is Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire?
500
This was Russia's most successful action of the entire war, moving hundreds of miles along a massive front into Austria-Hungary.
What is the Brusilov Offensive?
500
The German maneuvers to flank France and French counter-maneuvers that created a maze of trenches over a 400+ mile front in Northern France and Belgium was known as this.
What is the Race to the Sea?
500
This was the Allied action against the Ottoman Empire in an attempt to boost Allied morale, cut the Ottomans off from the rest of the war, and get supplies to Russia to keep them in the war.
What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
500
German subs sank this French ferry causing the U.S. to threaten action against Germany. A German promise to end the practice of unrestricted submarine warfare was the only reason the U.S. remained neutral.
What is the Sussex?
500
This is the region in Southern Europe made up of numerous small nations and different ethnic groups that was in a state of almost constant conflict in the years leading up to World War I.