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Verdun
Marne
Somme
Ypres
100
Although three of the French forts fell to German advances this city was never taken as a result of superior air power.
What is Verdun?
100
After four years and hundreds of thousands of lives where did the Battles of Marne end?
Exactly where they started!
100
After months of battle and half a million casualties the French and British failed to reach these two cities.
What are Bapaum and Serre (these were their first day objectives)
100
The pictures that came from the Battle of Ypres were synonymous with this horrific way to die.
What is drowning in liquid mud?
200
Verdun was a ten month engagement between these two armies.
What French and German armies?
200
This battle was actually an extended entrenchment which began in 1914 and ended in 1918.
What is the Battles of Marne?
200
This army decided to press back against the lines in the Battle of Somme.
What is the French army? (with British re-enforcements)
200
This battle was actually this many battles.
What is 3?
300
The notorious distinction that the Verdun battle site has earned.
What is "The most dead per square yard" of any battle in history?
300
The French combined forces with this expeditionary force to halt the German advancement at Marne.
What is the British Expeditionary Force? (BEF)
300
This many soldiers lost their lives in the Battle of Somme making it one of humanities bloodiest battles.
What is 1,000,000 soldiers?
300
The second Battle of Yepres in this year was famous for it being the first battle to use poison gas.
What is 1915?
400
The French built these installations as a response to the threat of German invasion.
What are sunken forts? (a solid line extending from Verdun to the Swiss frontier)
400
The Battles of Marne demonstrated the first use of this new military asset?
What are reconnaissance planes?
400
The battle of Somme is often seen as an outgrowth of this other major battle in WW1.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
400
The first Battle of Ypres fought in 1914 was an attempt to do what?
it was an attempt by BEF to halt the rapid advances of the Germans.
500
The German bombardment of the French forts surrounding Verdun began on this date in 1916.
What is February 21st?
500
The French used this mode of transportation to move 6,000 reserve troops to the front lines in an emergency deployment.
What are Parisian Taxicabs? (Renault AGS)
500
Before the Battle of Somme this Russian General had a major victory on the Eastern Front.
Who is Aleksei Brusilov?
500
The third Battle of Ypres also known as the long offensive cost the British this many lives.
What is 250,000?