Inventions
Originally used as a reconnaissance tool, this invention taught Europe to fear the sky.
What are aeroplanes?
The best Ace of the war.
Who is the Red Baron?
The German plan to knock out Russia and France and bring a swift end to the war.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
A period of inventions and industry that allowed for the mass production of machinery and weapons.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The translation of Dulce et decorum est:
It is Sweet and Proper to ____________________________________.
What is Die for one's country?
Originally operated by a team of men on the ground, this weapon would eventually be attached to cars, armored vehicles, and aeroplanes.
What is a machine gun?
British commander who is disgraced after the Dardanelles campaign.
Who is Winston Churchill?
What is the battle of Tannenberg?
The five reasons that the conflict in the Balkans became a worldwide catastrophe.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination?
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit not more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's ___________.
What is foam?
This weapon was used to clear out trenches, but was highly dependent on the weather.
What is poison gas?
Three leaders of the Bolshevik revolution.
Who are Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin?
A series of amphibious landings that resulted in massive casualties on both sides and nearly ended the career of Winston Churchill.
What is the Battle of Gallipoli?
The intense race between Allied and German armies as they built trenches from France all the way up to the North Sea.
What is the Race to the Sea?
Otto Dix depicted himself as this Deity.
This new invention was first introduced at the Battle of the Somme and was intended to end the stalemate of trench warfare.
What is the tank?
She led a Russian woman's Death Battalion on the Eastern Front.
Who is Maria Bochkareva?
The battle on the Western front that thwarted the Schlieffen Plan by stopping the German advance to Paris.
What is the First Battle of the Marne?
Prior to World War I, this bloody event set the stage for both democracy and nationalism to rise all over Europe.
What is the French Revolution?
This German artist entered into the war as a machine gunner with an eagerness for violence but emerged as a scarred and bitter man after spending time on the Western Front.
Who is Otto Dix?
Germany's prize invention of the war that gave them an advantage over the British.
What is a submarine?
A philosopher famous for saying "God is dead," whose pro-war writings helped to influence the German psyche.
Who is Nietzsche?
The first battle of World War I where flamethrowers are used as weapons of war.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
Woodrow Wilson's greatest challenge in getting the European leaders to accept the Fourteen Points.
What is the "Spirit of Vengeance?"
The artist who wrote: "Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth, and may it burn their lousy souls."
Who is Paul Nash?