Balkans
Gavrilo Princip shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in this city.
What is Sarajevo, Bosnia?
These three countries made up the original Triple Alliance, two of which would become known as the Central Powers (together with the Ottoman Empire) once the war began.
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
The Triple Entente was a loose alliance of these three nations.
What are France, Britain, and Russia?
The Great War brought on the widespread use of this tactic, the manipulation of ideas and information to solicit an emotional response, by governments on all sides.
What is propaganda?
This disputed border territory between France and Germany was under German control before the war and French control after the war.
What is Alsace-Lorraine?
Gavrilo Princip was a member of this terrorist organization.
What is "Unity or Death" or the "Black Hand"?
This is the German word for submarine, or the Allies' term used to refer to them.
What is Unterseeboot or U-boat?
The French were the first to utilize chemical weapons in trench warfare, deploying this annoying but ineffectual chemical in 1914.
What are tear gases?
Germany and Russia signed this agreement in 1918, removing Russia from the war.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
The "November Revolution" brought this group to power in Russia.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and after Austrian demands were not agreed to, Austria-Hungary declared war on this nation on July 28, 1914.
What is Serbia?
Germany attempted to defeat France quickly by marching through Belgium and then south behind the French defenses in a plan designed by and named for this man.
Who is Alfred von Schlieffen?
The United States entered WW1 after public opinion shifted following the dissemination of this communication.
What is the Zimmermann telegram?
This 1919 agreement put a formal end to WW1 between the Allies and Germany, and called for Germany to accept culpability and financial responsibility for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This man was living in exile in Switzerland in the beginning of 1917 and was the leader of Russia at the end of 1917.
Who is Vladimir Ilyich Lenin?
This concept of ethnic-based nationalism fueled both the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Russia's interest in intervening on behalf of their Slavic brethren.
What is Pan-Slavism?
Toward the end of the war, the Germans first used this chemical weapon in 1917 and, although it did not kill as many people as other chemical weapons, the long-term effects of exposure were severely debilitating.
What is mustard gas?
When Arab nationalists revolted against Ottoman control in 1916, the British sent this man to assist their efforts.
Who is T.E. Lawrence or Lawrence of Arabia?
This international entity was created following the war in accordance with Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Point Plan.
What is the League of Nations?
This former German soldier wrote All Quiet on the Western Front.
Who is Erich Maria Remarque?
This German Chancellor predicted the Great War, and that it would arise out of conflicts in the Balkans.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This German offensive along the middle of the Western Front in 1916 lasted for 11 months and resulted in more than half a million casualties on both sides without gaining any significant advantage.
What is the battle of Verdun?
The battle of Gallipoli was an Allies' offensive in present-day Turkey aimed at opening this tactical geographic feature that had been closed by the Ottomans when they joined the war.
What is the Dardanelles?
November 11, 1918, is known as this, marking an end to the fighting of WW1.
What is Armistice Day?
In 1922, Russia created this new nation to coalesce many smaller nations which had formerly been a part of the Tsarist Russian empire.
What is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?