Causes
4-letter acronym used to remember causes of WWI.
What is M.A.I.N.
Men spent most of their time in these.
What are trenches?
These fired much faster than muskets, and made getting out of your trench quite dangerous.
What are machine guns?
The space between opposing sides' trenches was called this.
What is No Man's Land?
This man's ideas got very popular in Russia, after he was dead.
Who is Karl Marx?
A network of defensive and hostile agreements that created a domino effect after conflict started.
What are alliances?
These 3 countries formed the Triple Entente.
Who are Britain, France, and Russia?
These "landships" made their debut in WWI.
What are tanks?
This phrase sent troops running toward near-certain death.
What is "over the top"?
This man became the first leader of Communist Russia, after promising peace, bread, and land.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
Archduke who was assassinated, triggering WWI.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
These 3 countries formed the Triple Alliance.
Who are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Ottoman Empire?
The Lusitania was brought down, and the USA was brought in, by one of these.
What are U-boats?
Super gross looking lower appendages, result of wet, dirty, years.
What is trench foot?
As the soldiers went home, they carried this bug.
What is Spanish Influenza?
This man shot Franz Ferdinand.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
Most WWI fighting occurred in this country.
What is France?
Illegal before, during, and after WWI, this weapon terrified man and killed them in horrifying ways.
What is gas? (Chemical weapons accepted.)
Often considered the best example of attrition.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
They kept factories running, and war supplies stocked, even though they weren't eating much.
Who are women on the home front?
German leader, aggressive, not trusted.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
The failure of this caused WWI to enter the trenches.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This killed more soldiers than anything else.
These soldiers spent the war trying to gain an advantage for their country, by working under ground.
Who are tunnelers?
He directed War Horse.
Who is Steven Spielberg?