Weapons
This weapon was used the most by soldiers in trenches.
What is a rifle?
This was the longest single battle of the war.
What is the battle of Verdun?
This was the president of the US during World War One.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
The space between two enemy trenches.
What is no-man's land?
This country was the first to declare war.
What is Austria-Hungary?
This weapon needed 4-6 men to operate, could fire 450-600 round/minute, and had the fire power of 100 guns.
What is a machine gun?
This Allied victory led to the armistice.
What is the battle of Amiens?
This person was the commander of U.S. forces in Europe.
Who is John J. Pershing?
This caused massive deadlock, and huge casualties.
What is trench warfare?
This is what German submarines were called.
What are U-boats (Unterseeboot)?
This weapon required soldiers to carry nitrogen tanks on their backs that sprayed fuel oil, which ignited as it left the muzzle of the small pipe.
What is a flamethrower?
This was the first battle that battle tanks were used on a mass scale.
What is the battle of Cambrai?
This person assassinated the Archduke of Austria.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
The term used to describe a policy of glorifying the armed forces and keeping an army prepared for war.
What is militarism?
This was Germany’s plan for fighting a two-front war against France and Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This artillery weapon fired explosive shells, up to 22 three-inch shells per minute, with a range of 1,200 yards.
What is a mortar?
This was the biggest naval battle of the war.
What is the battle of Jutland?
This person was the Archduke of Austria and whose assassination sparked the first world war.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
This country was blamed and punished for the war.
What is Germany?
Germany’s attack upon this country directly provoked Britain to go to war.
What is Belgium?
This weapon was the 20th century’s most significant leap in traditional weapons technology, and killed more people than any other weapon in the war.
What is artillery?
In this battle, poison gas was used for the first time.
What is the Second Battle of Ypres?
This person created the Fourteen Point Plan.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This is how the war ended (before the Treaty of Versailles).
What is an armistice (ceasefire)?
This country first intercepted the Zimmermann telegram.
What is Britain?