Alliances and Rivalries
The Battlefield
The Home Front
The Treaty of Versailles
100
This alliance included Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary.
What is the Triple Alliance?
100
The primary type of warfare used on the Western Front during World War I.
What is trench warfare?
100
This term describes the complete mobilization of a nation’s resources for war.
What is total war?
100
This U.S. President proposed the Fourteen Points as a framework for peace.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
This country destabilized the balance of power in Europe with its growing military and industrial strength before World War I.
What is Germany?
200
This German military plan aimed to quickly knock France out of the war before turning to Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
200
The economic hardship many nations faced during the war was due to this financial issue.
What is inflation caused by printing paper money?
200
This clause in the Treaty of Versailles held Germany responsible for starting World War I.
What is the war guilt clause?
300
The Triple Entente included these three nations.
What are France, Russia, and Great Britain?
300
These two major battles on the Western Front caused nearly 2 million casualties.
What are the Battle of Verdun and the Battle of the Somme?
300
This British passenger ship's sinking by German U-boats helped draw the United States into the war.
What is the Lusitania?
300
Why did Russia lose territory in the post-war settlements despite being on the winning side?
What is because of its weakened state after the 1917 Revolution?
400
Why did Balkan nationalism destabilize the region and lead to tensions in Europe?
What is ethnic nationalism among Balkan peoples?
400
Name one technological advancement that significantly increased the destruction during World War I.
What are machine guns, poison gas, long-range artillery, or tanks?
400
Nations used this tool to inspire patriotism and maintain public support for the war.
What is propaganda?
400
The League of Nations placed territories taken from Germany and the Ottoman Empire under this system.
What are mandates?
500
Which specific event in Sarajevo triggered the start of World War I?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
500
This Allied offensive was the final push against German forces in September 1918.
What is the Battle of the Argonne Forest?
500
During World War I, the Armenian Genocide led to the suffering and death of over a million Armenians. What was one primary method used by the Ottoman Empire to target the Armenian population?
What are death marches into the Syrian desert?
500
This post-war art movement reflected the disillusionment caused by the horrors of World War I.
What is Surrealism?