Before the War
The assassination of this Austrian Noble provoked the invasion of Serbia by the Dual Monarchy.
What is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
These three powers made up the Triple Entente at the beginning of the war.
What is Russia, France, and Britain?
What is Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire?
This Russian revolution...overshadowed by its more famous cousin...deposed Tsar Nicholas II, setting up a provisional democratic government instead of a monarch.
What is the February Revolution?
The Treaty of Versailles demilitarized this industrial heartland of Germany.
What is the Rhineland?
In this previous conflict, the new German Empire humiliated France and set themselves up as a major player in Europe.
What is the Franco-Prussian War?
The sinking of this American-boarded British ship set the stage for the U.S.'s entry into the war against the Central Powers.
What is the Lusitania?
This disgraced military commander and then later de-facto military dictator rose to power in Germany during the final stages of the war.
What is General Erich Ludendorff?
This treaty, signed by the Bolsheviks, ceded many lands to Germany in exchange for an end to hostilities.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This previously partitioned state, established by Germany during the war, gained independence and went on to be a major power holder in eastern Europe after the war.
What is Poland?
This invention, developed just after the turn of the century, opened a whole new theatre of combat other than merely on land and sea.
What is the aeroplane?
This new war machine was developed and used by Britain and France to great effect, famously utilized during the Battle of the Somme.
What is the Tank?
This new device of war was used originally by the Germans to great effect and was later banned from use in the Geneva Convention.
What is chemical weapons?
This communist political faction took control of the Russian heartlands shortly following the October Revolution.
What is the Bolsheviks?
Due to the other great powers cannibalizing their industry to stay afloat during the conflict, this untouched country entered a period of economic growth and prosperity.
What is the United States of America?
This new take on an old weapon drastically increased the firepower of your everyday infantryman, and was first seen in use in 1884.
What is the machinegun/automatic rifle?
The so called "National Schism" split this country in two, with one faction staying neutral to the Central Powers and the other opening a new front against the Central Powers.
What is Greece?
This rather old nautical invention saw its first widespread military use by the German Empire during WWI.
What is the submarine?
Entente powers invaded this northern city in Russia to secure old military shipments along with combating Bolshevik and German control in the area.
What is Arkhangelsk?
Hungary, after going through a communist revolution in 1919, was partitioned by this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Trianon?
Southeastern Europe changed dramatically over the course of these two wars which preceded WWI by less than half a decade.
What is the Balkan Wars?
This political doctrine of punitive action towards a country which had wronged your country previously guided France before and throughout the war.
What is Revanchism?
Conspiracy between Germany and the Ottoman Minister of War led to this nautical military action, dragging the neutral Ottoman Empire into war with Russia and by extension the rest of the Entente.
What is the Black Sea Raid?
This diasporic volunteer force of the Russian Empire famously took control of the trans-Siberian rail network, later being evacuated to their new home state in Europe through Vladivostok.
What is the Czechoslovak Legion?
A breakaway-only-in-name from the Ottoman Empire beat back the allied powers who wished to colonize it during this bizarre conflict of liberation.
What is the Turkish War of Independence?