First World War Battle fought for 5-12 of September 1914. Resulted in Allied Victory against the German Army.
What is the Battle Of Marne
100
The policy of building up armed forces in an aggressive preparedness for war and their use as a tool of diplomacy
Militarism
100
Sergeant _____ _____ was once described as World War I’s “greatest civilian soldier,” yet he began the conflict as a conscientious objector.
What is Alvin York
100
total number estimated of lives lost
What is 5million
100
Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo on this date
June 28 1914
200
There were 5 battles and it all started on October 19, 1914 in Belgium
Battle of Ypres
200
A formal agreement or union between Nations
Alliance
200
Renegade pilot ____ ____ was America’s greatest “balloon buster,” the nickname assigned to the brash aviators who attacked German observation balloons used to sight artillery.
What is Frank Luke
200
total number of American lives lost
What is 116,516
200
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY DECLARES WAR ON SERBIA. WORLD WAR I BEGINS
July 28, 1914
300
This battle was fought from 21 February – 18 December 1916 during the First World War on the Western Front between the German and French armies, on hills north of Verdun-sur-Meuse in north-eastern France.
What is the Battle of Verdum
300
Between trenches lay a barren expanse of mud pockmarked with shell craters and filled with barbed wire
"No mans Land"
300
was the most famous member of the “Harlem Hellfighters,” an all-black National Guard unit that was among the first American forces to arrive in Europe during World War I.
What is Henry Johnson
300
Other Names for World War I
Great War, War to End all wars
300
Britain declared war on Germany on this date..
August 4th, 1914
400
This battle was a naval battle fought by the Royal Navy's Grand Fleet (which also included ships and individual personnel from the Royal Australian Navy and Royal Canadian Navy) against the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War.
What is the Battle of Jutland
400
The 1919 peace treaty at the end of WWI which established new nations, borders, and war reparations
Treaty of Versailles
400
An attorney by trade, Major ___ ___ later made his name as the uncompromising commander of the so-called “Lost Battalion,” an American unit that became stuck behind German lines.
What is Charles Whittlesey
400
WWI lasted how many years
4 years
400
On this date Austria issues ultimatum to Serbia..
July 23, 1914
500
This battle was also known as the Somme Offensive, it was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire.
What is the Battle of Somme
500
military operations in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from systems of fortified ditches rather than on an open battlefield
Trench warfare
500
Marine Sergeant ___ ___ entered World War I as one of the United States’ most famous soldiers, having already won the Medal of Honor on two separate occasions for his service during the Boxer Rebellion and the U.S. occupation of Haiti.