Major Events
Commonwealth Soldiers
Central Power Soldiers
Decisive Canadian Battles
Soldier Slang
100
His assassination sparked the road to war.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
100
Canada's most decorated flying ace.
Who is Billy Bishop?
100
The most decorated flying ace on either side of the war.
Who is Manfred von Richthofen (The Red Baron)?
100
The location of the first gas attack of the Great War.
What is the 2nd Battle of Ypres?
100
Tommy Atkins
What is slang term for a British Soldier?
200
The year the United States joined the war.
What is 1917?
200
He played a key role in fomenting the Arabs to revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
Who is T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)?
200
Head of the German Army.
Who is Kaiser Wilhelm II?
200
Canada's most celebrated victory. The first battle almost exclusively made up of Canadian battalions.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
200
Canned corned beef
What is Bully Beef?
300
A worldwide pandemic in 1919, that killed 5% of the world's population.
What is the Spanish Flu?
300
The man responsible for raising Britian's volunteer army. Also created a new knitting technique.
Who is Lord Kitchener?
300
General Feld Marschall of the German army who won the Battle of Tannenberg. (Also has a dirigible named after him)
Who is Paul von Hindenburg?
300
"Muddy-est, Bloody-est battle of the whole war." Sir Douglas Haig's ill-fated attempt against the Germans.
What is the Battle of Passchendaele (3rd Battle of Ypres)?
300
A German
What is Bosch?
400
1,198 people died and turned the world's opinion firmly against Germany.
What is the sinking of the RMS Lusitania?
400
Helped allied soldiers escape from German occupied Belgium. Executed for espionage October 12, 1915.
Who is nurse Edith Cavell?
400
'The most powerful man in Germany.' As quartermaster of Germany he was in command of Germany's Great War efforts.
Who is Erich Ludendorff?
400
New thinking and tactics, the element of surprise, and the determined, battle-hardened shock-troops of Canada, Australia and Britain produced one of the most important victories of the war.
What is the Battle of Amiens?
400
Ambulance
What is Hot Cross Bun?
500
Russia and the Central Powers sign a peace treaty on March 3, 1918.
What is the Treaty of Brest Litovsk?
500
George Lawrence Price, killed November 11, 1918
Who is the last casualty of the Great War?
500
Elo Sambo, Gustav Sabac el Cher, and Ben Aissa were members of elite German regiments.
Who are regimental drummers of African origin?
500
Bloody battle during the Somme campaign, where 57,000 Newfoundlanders were mowed down by machine guns.
What is the Battle of Beaumont Hamel?
500
A coffin
What is a wooden overcoat?