Before WW1
WW1 Battles
The Home Front
Global War
The End of the War
100
The passionate belief in, and love for, one's own country which, before WW1, led European rivals to struggle to maintain a balance of power, whilst also seeking to overpower each other.
What is Nationalism?
100
A German military tactic in which German forces would quickly defeat France before turning their efforts on Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
100
One-sided information used to persuade the people to contribute to the war effort or believe in the war effort.
What is Propaganda?
100
The people of these places were drawn into World War One because of the European countries who ruled them.
What are colonies?
100
This is the first document or agreement that ends the fighting of a war. Not the final peace agreement.
What is an Armistice?
200
An arrangement in which two countries agree to go to war alongside each other, if either of them attacks or is attacked.
What is an alliance?
200
Three new weapons first used in World War One.
What are tanks, planes and poison gas?
200
Certain goods or resources were released to the general public only in limited quantities at one time.
What is rationing?
200
The United States entered World War One because of these two German actions.
What are Unrestricted Submarine Warfare and the Zimmerman Telegram?
200
One of Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points": The people of a nation should decide on and implement their own type of government
What is self-determination?
300
"The flexing of military muscles.” Preparing an army for war before a war is imminent; an intimidation tactic.
What is militarism?
300
One of the first battles of World War One, fought on the Eastern Front between Russia and Germany, after the Russian invaded Germany. It was a disaster for the Russians and a great victory for the Germans
What is the Battle of Tannenburg?
300
The places where women were able to make their largest contributions to the war effort, often at great cost to their health.
What are munitions factories?
300
This disastrous military campaign was launched by the British with the goal of weakening the Germans, whom the British believed would come to the aid of their Turkish allies.
What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
300
The peace agreement signed outside Paris on June 28 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
The heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne who was assassinated on June 28, 1914.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
400
The longest battle of World War One, fought on the Western Front between February 21 and December 18, 1916. Started by the Germans who wanted to "bleed France white", it resulted in the deaths of 700,000 soldiers, but did not produce a German victory
What is the Battle of Verdun?
400
All the nation's resources are devoted to the war effort, free speech is limited and free enterprise is affected.
What is total war?
400
This country issued 21 demands to the weak government of China in January 1915, with the goal of extending its control over the Chinese economy.
What is Japan?
400
Colonies that were taken from Germany and given to Britain and France.
What are the Mandated Territories?
500
The Serbian Nationalist who assassinated the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne on June 28 1914
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
500
The title of the poem by Wilfred Owen which expresses his generation's disillusionment with war.
What is "Dulce et Decorum est"?
500
Purchasing these allowed private US citizens to support the military effort. After the war, they could be redeemed for their purchase price, plus interest.
What are Liberty Bonds/Government Bonds?
500
The first modern genocide, resulting in the deaths of one and a half million people, and the complete expulsion of a people group from the Ottoman Empire.
What is the Armenian Massacre?
500
Article 231 of the peace agreement, in which Germany was forced to take full responsibility for starting the war and therefore had to agree to pay full reparations for all the damage done.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
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