Alliances
What 3 countries formed the Triple Alliance? and What year was it formed?
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
20 May 1882
What two countries were locked in a race to build the biggest navy?
Great Britain and Germany
What military defensive apparatus is distinctively associated with WWI ? So much so that WWI is called the war of the ________________________.
Trenches
How many American citizens were aboard the Lusitania when it was attacked by a German submarine?
128
What is the name of the agreement that officially ended the fighting of WWI and where and when was it signed?
The Armistice was signed in Compagnie, France, November 11, 1918
What 3 countries formed the Triple Entente? and what year was it formed?
French 3rd Republic, Russia Empire , and The United Kingdom of Great Britain
1907
Which of the following is not a cause of World War I? a) Imperialist competition, (b) social Darwinism (c) a series of crises in the Baltics (d) dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles (e) the Alliance system
C and D
Which of the following was not a major battle of World War I? Verdun, Somme, Ypres, Paris, Gallipoli, Passchendaele
Paris
The Zimmermann telegram was a message seeking alliance between what nations?
Germany, Mexico
What are the four empires that ended as a result of WWI?
German Empire
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Russian Empire
Ottoman Empire
During the course of the war the triple alliance modified and became known as what? and the triple entente became known as what?
The Triple Entente became the Allies
The Tripe Alliance became the Central Powers
Whose assassination by a Bosnian member of the Black Hand revolutionary group sparked WWI?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Name three new military technologies from WWI that necessitated a change in how warfare was conducted.
Machine Guns
Chemical Weapons
Barbed Wire
Airplanes
Field Radios or Telephones
Tanks
When did the Russian troops mutiny against their Tsarist government?
February 23, 1917 (The February Revolution)
What nations made up the “Big Four” at the post-WWI negotiating table?
Great Britain
France
The United States
Italy
Which alliance did the Ottoman Empire join?
The Central Powers
What is the specific date and location (city) of the notorious assassination that sparked WWI?
Sarajevo, Bosnia on June 28, 1914
What was the name of the plan that made it possible for Germany to fight a war on two fronts?
The Schlieffen Plan
What is the name of the treaty that established peace between the new Soviet Russia and the Central Powers?
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
What is the name of the republic that was established in Germany following the war?
The Weimar Republic
Which alliance did Japan join?
The Allies
In what country did Kaiser William II deliver a speech in support of independence, just to test the alliance between France and Britain?
Tangier, Morocco
What is the name of the one great naval engagement of World War I?
Battle of Jutland
On what date did the U.S. officially declare war on Germany?
April 6, 1917
Name five new countries created in the aftermath of WWI.
Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Austria, Hungary, Turkey