Causes of WWI
The "main" causes of WWI
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism?
The country that promised to protect Serbia if they went to war.
BONUS: The name of the race of people in those 2 countries.
What is Russia?
BONUS: What are the Slavs (Slavic people)?
Three (3) kinds of new technology used in WWI.
The first battle that used poison gas.
BONUS: The name of the Canadian poem written during that battle.
What was the Battle of Ypres?
BONUS: What was "In Flanders Fields"?
The vocabulary term for when both sides are equally strong and no one is winning.
What is a stalemate?
The countries of the Triple Alliance and Triple Entente.
What were Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy (Triple Alliance) and France, UK and Russia (Triple Entente)?
Germany's agreement to support Austria-Hungary if they went to war.
What was the "blank cheque"?
The name for the area between the trenches.
What was "No Man's Land"?
The vocabulary term meaning number of soldiers killed + wounded + captured.
What is casualty?
The name of the communist party and leader that came to power after the Russian Revolution.
Bonus: Name of the king of Russia before the revolution.
Who were the Bolsheviks led by Lenin?
Bonus: Who was Tsar Nicholas II
Britain and Germany built these powerful ships to increase the strength of their navy before WWI.
What were Dreadnoughts?
The name for the German war plan to avoid a two-front war.
BONUS: The reasons for the failure of the plan.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
BONUS: 1) Britain joined the war on the side of the allies, 2) Russia mobilized much faster than expected, 3) Belgium fought very hard, 4) France was not defeated in 6 weeks.
The name for the disease soldiers would get if they spent too much time in wet, muddy trenches.
What was trench-foot?
The deadliest battle of WWI.
BONUS: New technology first used during this battle.
What was the Battle of the Somme?
BONUS: What are tanks?
Name for the day that British and German soldiers played soccer and had fun with each other.
What was the Christmas Truce?
The name of the Serbian nationalist group who was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
BONUS: What was the name of the assassin?
What was the Black Hand?
(BONUS: Who was Gavrilo Princip?)
The name of the city and province where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.
What was Sarajevo, Bosnia?
The names of the famous Canadian and German "aces".
BONUS: The number of planes that each of them shot down.
Who were Billy Bishop and Red Baron?
BONUS: Billy Bishop 72, Red Baron 80
The battle that ended in victory for Canadian soldiers.
What was the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
The exact time and date of the armistice that ended WWI.
BONUS: What is this day called in Canada today?
When was November 11, 1918 at 11:00 am?
BONUS: Remembrance Day.
France wanted revenge against Germany for taking this province from them during the last war in 1870.
What was Alsace-Lorraine?
The exact date of the beginning of WWI.
What was July 28, 1914?
The biggest artillery of WWI.
BONUS: The distance it could shoot.
What was the Paris Gun?
BONUS: What was 130km?
Battle that involved horrible, muddy conditions, 3 months of fighting with no winner, and over 1,000,000 casualties (including 15,000 Canadians dead).
What was the Battle of Passchendaele?
Mr. Levy's birthday.
What is May 30, 1986?