CENTRAL POWERS
VOCABULARY
ALLIED POWERS
WAR STRATEGY
1917 FILM
100
Country where Archduke Franz Ferdinand is from.
What is Austria/Hungary?
100
a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy, economics, or military force.
What is Imperialism?
100
The United Kingdom, France & Russia were known as…
What is the Allied Powers?
100
a type of combat in which opposing troops fight from long narrow ditches facing each other
What is trench warfare?
100
Type of trees cut down on the farm after Lance Corporal Schofield and Lance Corporal Blake pass the first German trench.
What are Cherry Blossoms?
200
Place where Archduke Franz Ferdinand visits to oversee his troops.
Where is Sarajevo?
200
This treaty was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One. The terms of the treaty required that Germany pay financial reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up all of its overseas colonies.
What is the Treaty of Versaille?
200
The Allies were losing WWI until this country gets involved in the war.
What is the United States?
200
the narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches during the First World War
What is no-man’s land?
200
Animal that triggers the trip wire in the German trench in the first half of the film.
What is a rat?
300
Germany, Austria-Hungary, The Ottoman Empire (aka Turkey) were known as.
What is Central Powers?
300
a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries
What is Isolationism?
300
Free space!
Enjoy your free points!
Keep going you're on a roll!
300
Mandatory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
What is conscription (the draft)?
300
Purpose for Lance Corporal Schofield & Blake’s mission.
To deliver a message to British troops.
400
This country attacked multiple American merchant ships forcing them to join WW1.
What is Germany?
400
A grouping of nations where each one pledges mutual support to the others. This was an underlying cause of WWI.
What is Alliances?
400
US President during WWI.
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
400
3 countries that make up the central powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey (Ottoman Empire)
400
Motivation for Lance Corporal Blake to deliver important military message to British troops.
What is “to save his brother.”?
500
Archduke Ferdinand dies in Sarajevo, a state of the Austria-Hungary empire and declares war on the neighboring country.
What is Serbia?
500
A deep devotion to one’s country.
What is Nationalism?
500
This country wore brightly colored uniforms in the beginning of WWI making it easy for the opposing army to target their troops.
What is France?
500
3 European countries that make up the allied forces
Great Britain, France, Russia
500
Absent a telephone, Lance Corporal Schofield & Blake use this modern (at the time) communication device to let British forces know they arrived at the empty German trench.
What is a flare gun?