Causes of the War
This acronym summarizes the four main long-term causes of WWI.
What is MAIN (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism)?
The assassination that triggered WWI happened in this city.
What is Sarajevo?
This country was ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm II during WWI.
What is Germany?
This type of warfare involved soldiers fighting from long, narrow ditches. This is widely considered to be one of the main causes of shell shock or more commonly known, PTSD.
What is Trench Warfare?
This treaty officially ended WWI in 1919.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This alliance system included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
The man assassinated on June 28, 1914.
Who is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This country withdrew from the war after a revolution in 1917.
What is Russia?
A long and deadly battle fought in 1916 between France and Germany. This battle was fought over 300 days, and had 700,000 to over 1,000,000 casualties. This battle featured the first large scale use of flamethrowers. The French eventually won this battle.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This country suffered massive losses and eventually experienced the Bolshevik Revolution.
This event showed the weakness of international diplomacy when European powers met but failed to resolve tensions in North Africa.
What is the Moroccan Crisis?
The assassin whose killing of a political figure incited the first world war.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
This country was invaded through Belgium as part of the Schlieffen Plan.
What is France?
This 1916 battle involved a major British offensive along a river in France. There were over 1 million British, French, and German casualties over 141 days of fighting. This battle featured the first use of tanks. This battle was also filmed for the titular 1916 Documentary.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
This government-controlled messaging was designed to shape public opinion and increase support for the war effort.
What is Nationalist Propaganda?
This political strategy, associated with leaders like Otto von Bismarck, focused on practical goals over ideology.
What is Realpolitik?
This nationalist group was behind the assassination.
What is the Black Hand?
This country declared war after Germany invaded Belgium.
What is Great Britain?
This naval vessel aimed to starve Britain by sinking ships with torpedoes shot underwater.
What are U-Boats?
This new art movement rejected realism and showed emotional distortion during the war era.
What is Expressionism?
This system of agreements between nations helped turn a regional conflict into a world war.
What is the Alliance System?
This territory had been annexed by Austria-Hungary, angering Serbian nationalists.
What is Bosnia?
These British Prime Ministers led Great Britain for much of WWI (accept either answer).
Who is David Lloyd George or Benjamin Disraeli?
The failure of this German plan to invade France on the western front led to a prolonged stalemate and the development of trench warfare on the Western Front.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This avant-garde movement often used collage and ready-made objects to reject traditional definitions of art during WWI. Artists in this movement intentionally created irrational and nonsensical works as a protest against the logic they believed caused World War I.
What is Dadaism?