Countries in the war
Which country was part of the Central Powers and known for its strong military?
What is Germany?
What was the term for the competition among European nations for colonies?
Answer: What is imperialism
What was the term for mandatory recruitment of soldiers during the war?
Answer: What is conscription or the draft?
What treaty officially ended World War I?
Answer: What is the Treaty of Versailles?
What were the long, deep ditches where soldiers lived called?
Answer: What are trenches?
Name one of the main countries that was part of the Allies.
Answer: What is France, or Britain, or Russia?
What is it called when countries agree to protect each other and join forces in case there is a war?
What are Alliances?
What does the Home Front refer to?
The war effort in the home country.
In what year did World War I end?
Answer: What is 1918?
Name one major problem soldiers faced in the trenches.
Answer: What is mud, disease, or rats?
Which country joined the Allies in 1917?
Answer: What is the United States?
What event is considered the spark that ignited World War I?
Answer: What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
They were treated poorly.
Which country was blamed for the war and forced to sign the War Guilt clause?
What is Germany?
What was "No Man's Land"?
Answer: What is the area between opposing trenches?
Which country was primarily responsible for the assassination that sparked the war?
Answer: What is Serbia?
What is the intense pride and loyalty to one's country called?
What is Nationalism?
What did women do to support the war effort?
Answer: What are taking on jobs traditionally held by men?
What was one major consequence of the war for Germany?
Answer: What is the loss of territory and reparations?
What type of warfare was common in the trenches?
Answer: What is trench warfare?
Which empire was dissolved after World War I?
Answer: What is the Austro-Hungarian Empire?
What was the military buildup before the war called?
Answer: What is militarism?
What was one way the government raised money for the war?
Answer: What are war bonds?
What league was created after the war to promote peace?
Answer: What is the League of Nations
What did the soldiers use to protect the front of the trenches?
What is barbed wire.