Causes of WWI
This alliance included Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy before WWI.
What was the Triple Alliance?
Germany's plan to quickly defeat France before turning to fight Russia.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
This country was forced to accept responsibility for WWI under the War Guilt Clause.
What is Germany?
This air campaign saw Germany attempt to defeat Britain through bombing.
What was the Battle of Britain?
Historians continue to debate whether the use of these weapons was necessary to end the war.
What are atomic bombs (nuclear weapons)?
This system of building up armies and weapons contributed to tensions before WWI.
What is militarism?
This type of warfare became common on the Western Front.
What is trench warfare?
Germany was required to make these payments to the victorious nations.
What are reparations?
Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.
What was Operation Barbarossa?
The first city targeted by an atomic bomb on August 6, 1945.
What is Hiroshima?
This event in Sarajevo in 1914 triggered the outbreak of WWI.
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This 1916 battle became one of the bloodiest battles in human history.
What was the Battle of the Somme?
Many historians believe this treaty helped create conditions that contributed to WWII.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This surprise attack brought the United States into WWII.
What was the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The country that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan.
What is the United States?
This belief that one's nation is superior and should pursue its interests helped increase tensions in Europe.
What is nationalism?
This country the Schlieffen Plan required Germany to invade, bringing Britain into the war.
What is Belgium?
This territory was returned to France under the Treaty of Versailles.
What is Alsace-Lorraine?
This battle marked a major turning point on the Eastern Front and ended in a Soviet victory.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
The two Japanese cities where atomic bombs were dropped in August 1945.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This competition among European powers for colonies and overseas territories increased rivalries before WWI.
What is imperialism?
The Battle of the Somme lasted for approximately this many months.
What is five months (July–November 1916)?
Germany's military was limited to this maximum number of soldiers.
What is 100,000 men?
This codename was given to the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
What was D-Day (Operation Overlord)?
This event occurred shortly after the bombing of Nagasaki and ended the war in the Pacific.
What was Japan's surrender?