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This man was assassinated by a Serbian terrorist
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand
100

A formal agreement between two or more nations. In national defense, they're promises that each nation will support the other, particularly during war.

What is an alliance

100
This weapon can fire over one hundred rounds (bullets) in less than a minute
What is a machine gun
100
Germany had to fight 2 offensive fronts called
What are the Eastern and Western Front
100
The name of the treaty that officially ended World War 1
What is the Treaty of Versailles
200
Germany had an alliance with this dual empire.
What is Austria-Hungary
200

A situation in which neither side in an argument or contest can make progress.

What is a stalemate
200
This kind of battle tactic almost directly resulted in a stalemate.
What is Trench Warfare.
200

A secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military contract between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany. With Germany's aid, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.

What is the Zimmerman note

200
An intergovernmental organization founded as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War by Woodrow Wilson
What is the League of Nations
300
The intense pride in one's country and national interest
What is Nationalism
300

A formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. It is not necessarily the end of a war, as it may constitute only a cessation of hostilities while an attempt is made to negotiate a lasting peace.

What is an armistice

300

Chemical Warfare used during war.

What is poison gas

300
The war officially ended in this year
What is 1918
300
According to the treaty that ended the war, Germany was going to make serious territorial concessions and pay war _________.
What are reparations
400

Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire.

What are the Central Powers

400

Compensation payments made after a war by one side to the other. They are intended to cover damage or injury inflicted during a war. Can take the form of hard currency, precious metals, natural resources, industrial assets, or intellectual properties.

What is reparations

400
Tracked, armored fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities first used by the British in World War I
What are tanks
400

A British-registered ocean liner that was torpedoed by an Imperial German Navy U-boat during the First World War on 7 May 1915, about 11 nautical miles off the Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland.

What is the Lusitania

400

The anger at how harsh they were amongst Germans would be used by political groups to begin the journey towards this war.

What is WW2

500

Country in which the assassinators where from.

What is Serbia

500

The practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power and soft power.

What is imperialism

500

A massive attack all along the western front in France, with the aim of reaching Paris and forcing the Allies to surrender.

What was the 'Ludendorff Offensive' (also known as Kaiserschlacht , or 'Kaiser's Battle')

500

A new idea in which each of these forces could work as a single unit, following a unified battle plan. 

What is "combined arms warfare"

500

A statement in the war treaty that made Germany accept full blame for starting World War One.

What is the War Guilt Cause