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Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary formed this alliance.
Who was the Central Powers?
Most of the war on the Western Front was fought in these when both sides dug in their defenses.
What are trenches?
According to the Treaty of Versailles, this country received full blame for WWI and the harshest penalties for their participation.
What is Germany?
Another name for a German submarine.
What is a U-boat?
The United States entered the war largely over this issue?
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
The spark of World War I was the assassination of this Austrian royal and his wife.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand ?
Foot condition that developed from spending prolonged periods in wet trenches without getting to change socks or boots.
What is trench foot?
Small pockets of ceasefires across the Western Front in December of 1914.
What is the Christmas Truce?
Russia left the war due to internal issues, why was this a problem for the Allies?
What is Germany would be fighting a one-front war?
This country left the Central Powers and joined the Allied Powers due to Austria-Hungary's handling of Serbia.
Who is Italy?
What was the alliance of Great Britain, France, and Russia just before World War I.
What is Allied Powers (Allies)?
What did the United States do when WWI broke out in 1914?
What is they stayed neutral?
How was the style/strategy of fighting different on the Eastern front during WWI compared to the Western front?
What is the Eastern front was much more mobile, too big for trench warfare, Russians got pushed back quickly?
The new name for Communist Russia.
What is the Soviet Union?
Identify 2 other elements of the treaty of Versailles that would've made Germany upset aside from having to take full responsibility for the War.
- No more u-boats
- German army couldn't exceed 100,000 men
- Lost territory
- France got to use German coal mines for 15 years
At the Battle of the Marne in 1914 the French needed reinforcements quickly, so these were used from Paris to get troops to the front.
What are taxis?
This war plan of the Germans utilized a strategy of speed and mass mobilization to take Paris quickly and move all resources to the Eastern Front ending the war by Christmas of 1914.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
He was the President of the United States during WWI.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
He and his family were executed by the Soviets.
Who was Czar Nicholas II? or Who were the Romanovs?
The War eventually turned into opponents trying to wear down the other side with constant attacks costing heaving losses. This is known as
What is war of attrition?
What are the four M.A.I.N. causes of World War I?
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
Another term for Czar Nicholas II formally giving up control of the throne of Russia.
What is abdicate?
November 11 celebrates the end of WWI and is known as this.
What is Armistice Day or "Veteran's Day (today)?
Leader of the communist party in Russia during the Russian Civil War?
Who was Lenin?
This is the Serbian National who single-handedly created the spark that began WWI.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?