Road to War
This ideology promoted devotion to one’s nation and fueled German and Italian unification in the 1800s.
Answer: What is nationalism?
This defensive weapon, capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute, devastated attacking infantry.
This September 1914 battle halted Germany’s advance toward Paris and ended hopes for a quick victory.
Answer: What is the First Battle of the Marne?
This nation joined the Allies in 1917 after repeated German U-boat attacks.
Answer: What is the United States?
This U.S. president called for “peace without victory” and proposed the Fourteen Points.
Answer: Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This phrase is used to describe the millions of young European soldiers killed in World War I, creating a demographic and cultural void across the continent.
Answer: What is the Lost Generation?
This 1884–1885 conference in Berlin, led by Otto von Bismarck, set rules for European colonization of Africa.
Answer: What is the Berlin Conference?
This pre-industrial tactic sent soldiers in waves across open ground toward enemy positions
Answer: What is the mass infantry charge?
This 1916 battle near a French fortress city caused over 700,000 casualties.
Answer: What is the Battle of Verdun?
This empire allied with Germany and fought British and Arab forces in the Middle East.
Answer: What is the Ottoman Empire?
This French leader, known as “The Tiger,” demanded harsh limits on German power.
Answer: Who is Georges Clemenceau?
This political movement expanded as women gained new roles during the war.
Answer: What is women’s suffrage?
The four long-term causes of WWI were nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and this binding system of agreements.
Answer: What are alliances?
This system of long, parallel trenches stretched nearly 500 miles across the Western Front.
Answer: What is trench warfare?
This 1916 battle on a French River saw more than 20,000 British soldiers killed on the first day.
Answer: What is the Battle of the Somme?
This Asian power seized German colonies in the Pacific after joining the Allies in 1914.
Answer: What is Japan?
This British prime minister sought to punish Germany but preserve European stability.
Answer: Who is David Lloyd George?
This treaty clause placed sole responsibility for the war on Germany.
Answer: What is the War Guilt Clause?
Gavrilo Princip belonged to this Serbian nationalist group that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914.
Answer: What is the Black Hand?
This deadly stretch between trench lines was filled with barbed wire, shell craters, and machine-gun fire.
Answer: What is no man’s land?
This 1915–1916 amphibious campaign targeted Ottoman control of the Dardanelles.
Answer: What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
This system of global empires drew colonies in Africa and Asia into a European war.
Answer: What is imperialism?
This international organization was created to resolve conflicts through diplomacy.
Answer: What is the League of Nations?
This economic punishment helped destabilize Germany and fueled resentment after the war.
Answer: What are reparations?
This region of southeastern Europe, filled with Slavic nationalist movements, was called the “powder keg of Europe.”
Answer: What is the Balkan Peninsula?
This German military strategy assumed France could be defeated quickly before turning east against Russia.
Answer: What is the Schlieffen Plan?
This 1916 Russian offensive nearly collapsed the Austro-Hungarian army on the Eastern Front.
Answer: What is the Brusilov Offensive?
This strategically vital strait, controlled by the Ottomans, blocked Allied access to Russia.
Answer: What are the Dardanelles?
This 1919 treaty forced Germany to accept war guilt, territorial losses, and reparations.
Answer: What is the Treaty of Versailles?
By 1918, approximately how many soldiers had been killed in World War I, leaving a demographic gap across Europe?
Answer: What is about 9–10 million soldiers?