Key Events
This event was done by a Serbian terrorist group and was the "spark" that started the war.
What was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
A invisible ship that Germany used to target other ships.
What is a submarine or a U-Boat?
Leader of Russia during WWI.
Who was Tsar Nicholas II of Russia?
The magical monk who said he could "cure" Prince Alexi of hemophilia.
Who was Grigori Rasputin?
The Tsarina, the Grand Duchess, and the princesses of Russia did this in order to have money if they were able to escape captivity.
What was sewed jewels into their corsets?
This event happened on May 7, 1915 and killed 1,197 innocent civilians.
What was the sinking of the Luisitania?
Countries can now attack from the clouds.
What is fighting using airplanes?
Leader of Germany during WWI.
Who was Kaiser (King) Wilhelm II?
The main reasons that Russia pulled out of WWI in 1917.
What was poor leadership, starving people, revolts, and they were using old technology to fight? Yeah, they were loosing BIG TIME!
Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WWI.
What were the 14 points?
This event happened on December 24th, 1915 on the western front and resulted in troops having to be reassigned.
What was the unofficial Christmas truce?
A way to attack across enemy territory while remaining virtually bullet proof.
What is a tank?
President of the United States during WWI.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
Outcome of the Russian Revolution for the Russian Royal Family.
What is they were all assassinated in a horrible way?
Plan written in 1928 officially outlawing war.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
This was the "promise" That Kaiser Wilhelm II made to the United States saying that they would not sink anymore merchant ships.
What was the Sussex Pledge?
This technology has since been outlawed, but was heavier than air and forced soldiers out of the trenches.
What is gas warfare (chemical warfare)?
Assassin of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austrio-Hungary.
Who was Gavrilo Princip or the Black Hand?
The person who led the Bolshevik Revolution and became the first leader of Communist Russia (USSR).
Who was Vladimir Illyich Lenin?
Name of the princess of Russia that supposedly escaped killing and is the subject of legend (yeah, no, she is quite dead).
Who was Anastasia?
This was the message that Germany supposedly sent to Mexico asking them to attack the United States.
What was the Zimmerman telegram or Zimmerman note?
This type of weapon allowed multiple bullets to be fired in quick succession.
What is a machine gun?
Leader of England during WWI.
Who was King George V? BTW, his cousins were Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany AND Tsar Nicholas-yeah a family fued!
The person who succeeded Lenin (might have helped Lenin die).
Who was Joseph Stalin.
The name of the battle plan that did not work in WWI but that did in WWII (Hitler knew his history... just sayin').
What was the Schlieffan Plan?