Wartime Events
Period of cease-fire in which enemy armies exchanged gifts.
What was the Christmas Truce?
The logical fallacy captured in this sentiment: "If you don't support the war, you are actively aiding the enemy".
What is a false dilemma?
The shooting of unarmed civilians in peaceful protest by tsarist soldiers in St Petersburg in January 1905.
What was Bloody Sunday?
Led India in peaceful rebellion against the British Empire.
Who was Gandhi?
The M.A.I.N causes of WWI.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
The German's secret message to Mexico that stated they would support Mexico's conquest of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.
What was the Zimmerman telegram?
The logical fallacy captured in this sentiment: "If you don't support the war, the Germans will kill you, your wives, and your children".
What is an appeal to fear?
The second of two revolutions that resulted in civil war across Russia between the Red and White armies.
What was the October Revolution?
German territories in China were handed over to this country following the war.
What is Japan?
What were Willson's 14 Points?
Reason Russia left WWI.
What was the Russian Revolution?
The act of suppressing oppositional information.
What is censuring?
Thought to have healing powers and allegedly cuckold the Emperor while he was away leading his armies during the Great War.
Who was Rasputin?
Daily Double
What year did the war begin and what year did America decide to join?
France's (and England's) final solution to prevent Germany from being capable of waging war.
What was the treaty of Versailles?
Form of warfare that resulted in German and French forces began bunkering down in immovable lines.
What was trench warfare?
An iconic figure who personifies the ideologies of America and the government itself.
Who is "Uncle Sam"?
The Radical leader of the Bolshevik party and supporter of Communism.
Who was Vladimir Lenin?
Two significant inventions that changed the way the world conducted war forever.
What are the airplane and the tank? (Chemical weapons, telegrams, camo, etc.)
What is Nationalism?
His death signaled the start of World War I.
What was the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand?
An alternate name for the Germans.
What was "The Huns"?
The Last Czar of Russia.
The two main countries Japan actively sought to control.
What are Korea and China?
The political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of the major means of production and the natural resources of a society.
What is Communism?