Causes
The Assassination of this world leader sparked the conflict that resulted in the Great War.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The Battle of the Aisne River forced soldiers on both sides to dig in for protection, introducing this practice of warfare, which was used for the rest of the war.
What is trench warfare?
The Second Battle of that Belgian city in the other clue saw the Germans deploy 168 tons of this stuff, which killed thousands of Allied troops in minutes.
What is chlorine gas?
The first Russian Revolution took place in this year, which was started because Royal Guards shot protestors outside the Winter Palace.
What is 1905?
The war came to an end when diplomats representing Germany and Austria-Hungary signed the Armistice agreement at 5 a.m. on this date. The armistice went into effect 6 hours later.
What November 11, 1918?
Britain, France, and Russia formed this type of partnership in response to Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy forming one of their own.
What is an Alliance?
3 separate battles occurred not far from this small town in Belgium. You can imagine the amount of death those people saw.
What is Ypres?
You see these things everywhere today, on TV, in movies. But imagine the horror the Germans must have felt when they first saw the British Mark I version of these behemoths rolling across No Man's Land in 1916.
What is a tank?
In the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the Turkish discriminated against this group of people by accusing them of disloyalty and having a secret alliance with the Russians.
Who are the Armenians?
President Woodrow Wilson gave a speech before Congress, in 1917, outlining this numerical set of parameters that he hoped would be the steps to move on from the war.
What are the Fourteen Points?
Building and stockpiling weapons, developing the navy, and expanding the army are all characteristics of this type of causes.
What is Militarism?
The Japanese entered the war as member of the Allied Powers. One of their first major battles was capturing and controlling this German colony in China.
What is Qingdao/Tsingtao?
The German Navy wasn't very big especially when compared to the British, the largest in the world at the time. Instead they turned to these type of vessels allowing them to slip past patrols and attack ships unprovoked.
What are submarines/U-boats?
Unhappy with the Provisional Government of Russia, he formed his own political party, the Bolsheviks, which would eventually take over as the new governing body.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The Big Four of the Paris Peace Conference included Wilson from the U.S., George Lloyd from Great Britain, Georges Clemenceau from France, and him from Italy.
Who is Vittorio Orlando?
The Rise in Nationalism was felt everywhere, but no one felt it more than this small nation when Austria-Hungary formally annexed it in 1908, which caused a crisis.
What is Bosnia & Herzegovina?
The Germans engaged in this practice of warfare, in which they targeted any ship sailing into the warzone. The practice, however, was one of the 2 reasons the United States entered the war.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
France's Joseph Frantz and Germany's Fritz von Zangen engaged in this type of combat in 1914, the first of its kind, which is eerily impressive considering humankind achieved this feat barely 10 years earlier.
What is aerial combat/dog fighting?
The Ottomans ordered a deportation of the people they deemed a legitimate threat, and sent millions of people on a death march to this country in the Middle East. Along the way, hundreds of thousands were executed and disposed in rocky terrains, ditches, and large bodies of water.
What is Syria?
One of Wilson biggest goals he managed to achieve was establishing this international group that would monitor and govern countries in order to achieve worldwide peace. The US Senate disapproved of conditions outlined in the Treaty of Versailles and refused to ratify it, so the United States never joined.
What is the League of Nations?
The 2 "I's" in the MAINIA acronym represent these two causes, which are characterized by a rise in mass production and a rise in competition for colonial power.
What are Industrialism and Imperialism?
From July 1 to November 18, 1916, over a million soldiers would lose their lives at this long, excruciating battle, which takes its name from the nearby river in Northern France.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
All these immense battles, massive casualties, sense of dread and hopelessness all contributed to soldiers developing this psychological term now known as PTSD.
What is Shell Shock?
One of the outcomes of the February Revolution was the abdication of this Russian emperor in 1917. He and his family were executed 16 months later.
Who is Nicholas II?
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, dubbed this clause, placed the blame of the war entirely on Germany, even though Austria-Hungary was one who declared war in the first place.
What is the War Guilt Clause?