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Battles
100
An agreement between two or more countries to help/defend each other when needed.
What is an alliance?
100
The most important weapon in the war.
What are machine guns?
100
What started the war?
What is the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
100
The battle where tanks were introduced by the Allies.
What is the Battle of Somme?
200
A country that does not take sides in a war between other countries.
What is a neutral country?
200
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is an armistice?
200
The chemical weapon introduced that was contained in containers call shells.
What is gas?
200
By early November of 1918, all of the Central Powers had surrendered except for this country.
What is Germany?
200
The 30 minute battle where neither side declared victory.
What is the Battle of Jutland?
300
The land between the front trenches of opposing armies.
What is no man's land?
300
The line of trenches that ran for nearly 600 miles from Belgium to Switzerland.
What is the western front?
300
The name for the German submarines.
What are u-boats?
300
The Treaty of Versailles took away a great deal of what from the Germans?
What is territory?
300
The battle where the French defeated the Germans.
What is the Battle of Marne?
400
A situation where neither side can gain ground.
What is a deadlock?
400
This was signed in the Halls of Mirrors placing blame for the war on the Germans.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
What soldiers wore that covered their entire head to protect themselves.
What are gas masks?
400
What American president decided to join the war by saying "we need to make the world safe for democracy."
Who is President Woodrow Wilson?
400
The longest and bloodiest battle of the war.
What is the battle of Verdun?
500
What both side wanted to take control of in the "Race to the Sea."
What is the ports along the English Channel?
500
Part of the Schlieffen Plan was for Germany to attack and capture this city.
What is Paris, France?
500
Walls made of dirt, sandbags, and tangles of barbed wire.
What are parapets?
500
5 problems that soldiers experienced in the trenches.
What are lice, rats, bad smells, knee-deep mud, and trench foot?
500
Another name for World War I.
What is "the war to end all wars?"
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