Battles
The first major battle between Germany and the Russian Empire.
What is the Battle of Tannenberg?
This gas is responsible for about 85% of chemical weapons deaths during World War I.
What is Phosgene gas?
She invented the portable X-ray machine and won 2 Nobel prizes, one in chemistry and in physics.
This piece of information was intercepted by the British and passed on to the US. It was the main reason for the US entering WWI.
What is the Zimmerman telegram?
This was Woodrow Wilson's slogan when he was running for presidential reelection during the War.
"He has kept us out of war"
Flame throwers and Phosgene gas were used for the first time during this battle. Germany's goal during this battle was to bleed France of it's resources and weaken the army.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This nation was the first to introduce tanks onto the battlefield.
What is Britain?
He and his entire family were executed during the Russian Civil War following the October Revolution.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
The overthrow of the Tzar's regime and the Bolshevik rise to power.
What is the Russian Revolution?
In his poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen calls out the Latin phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" as being "The old lie." What is the full English translation of that phrase?
It is Sweet and Proper to die for one's country.
The first battle to employ trench warfare on the Western front.
What is the First Battle of the Marne?
What is a Zeppelin?
Who is Winston Churchill?
The assassination of this person set off a chain of events that led to the outbreak of World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
Souls
The battle that introduced Australia's and New Zealand's fighting corps into the war.
What is Gallipoli?
The flamethrower first made its first appearance at this battle.
What is Verdun?
He was the father of the Russian Revolution and would become the mentor of Joseph Stalin.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
A period of invention and industry that allowed for the mass production of machinery, including weapons.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Complete the stanza:
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's ___________.
Foam.
The first day of this battle was the bloodiest day in the history of the British army.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
The plan to use these weapons to take out the German front line took nearly a year to execute at the Battle of the Somme.
What are land mines?
A British landscape artist who radically changed his views after serving on the front lines in Belgium.
Who is Paul Nash?
This was an event that caused the death of 1,195 people, including 128 Americans. While this event did not directly lead to the US entering into the war, it did result in the US demanding that Germany restrict its submarine warfare.
What is the sinking of The Lusitania?
During WWI, the leaders of these three warring nations were all cousins, all descendants of England's Queen Victoria I.
England (King George V), Russia (Tsar Nicholas), and Germany (Kaiser Wilhelm).