WWI Events
The event that sparked WWI
What is the Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A fast and aggressive strengthening of armed forces
What is Militarism?
Industrialism made the reliability of this weapon possible.
What is a Machine Gun?
This is the continent that WWI was fought on.
What is Europe?
The country that the assassin of the Archduke hails from
What is Serbia?
A mutual agreement between at least 2 countries that address political, economic, or military concerns.
What are Alliances
This is the area between two trenches
What is No Man's Land?
The country in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was from.
What is Austria-Hungary?
The name of the assassin that killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
Media that is meant to change your opinion or make you do something that you may not normally do
What is Propaganda?
Used early during WWI against trenches. Was deemed ineffective due to their decimation by machine gun fire.
What is the Use of Horses (Cavalry) in WWI?
A disease suffered by WWI soldiers due to the unsanitary conditions in the trenches.
What is Trench Foot/Trench Fever?
The two countries that started WWI against one another.
The strong belief in the connections between the people of a nation (shared culture, religion, language, ethnicity, geography, military strength, etc.) and the superiority of one’s own nation over all others.
What is Nationalism?
Originally used in agriculture to keep cows fenced in. An effective and cheap tool to deploy beyond the trenches.
What is Barbed Wire?
Deterrents against the presence of U-Boats. Employed by the Americans before the invention of Radar.
What are Sea Mines?
The name of the group that the Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a part of.
What is the Black Hand?
When an enemy tries to wear down their enemy by killing as many of the opposition as possible.
What is a War of Attrition?
These vehicles were the German military's best kept secret. They terrorized the British and nearly eliminated them from the war before America got involved.
What are U-Boats?
The 7 Countries that participated in WWI when it started.
Austria-Hungary, Serbia, Great Britain, Russia, France, Germany, and Japan