Western Front
Lead Up to the War
U.S. Enters the War
Miscellaneous
100

This is the term for the location where a war is fought. During World War I, these were given directional names.

What is a front?

100

This country was originally in the Triple Alliance, but it joined the Entente at the start of the war.

What is Italy?

100

Who was President of the United States when we entered World War I?

Who is Woodrow Wilson?

100

This is the term for when countries fight wars to destroy their enemy, not just to defeat them.

What is total war?

200

This was a new type of warfare used in World War I, which required the use of masks to combat it.

What is gas warfare, chemical warfare, or gas attacks?

200

This was the secret organization in Bosnia that supported unity with Serbia. It planned the assassination that started World War I.

What is the Black Hand?

200

This is the name for one-sided information used to build morale during wartime.

What is propaganda?

200

This is the name of the alliance between France, Great Britain, and Russia before World War I.

What is the Triple Entente?

300

This was the name of Germany's strategy at the start of World War I.

What is the Schlieffen Plan?

300

This is the German title used to refer to the Emperor of Germany.

What is Kaiser?

300

The sinking of this ship was one of the reasons the United States entered World War I.

What is Lusitania?

300

This was the group name of the four most important figures at the Paris Peace Conference.

What is the Big Four?

400

This was the final major battle on the Western Front, the end of Germany's Spring 1918 Offensive.

What is the Second Battle of the Marne?

400

This was the name of the country that declared war on Serbia, starting World War I.

What is Austria-Hungary?

(or Austro-Hungarian Empire)

400

This was the country that Germany asked to declare war on the United States in the Zimmerman Telegram.

What is Mexico?

400

This man lead the Russian government after the Revolution. He got Russia to sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.

Who is Vladimir I. Lenin?

500

This is the name of a book and movie about life on the Western Front from the German point of view.

What is All Quiet on the Western Front?

500

This was the name of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's wife, who was also killed by Princip.

Who was Archduchess Sophie?

500

This was the pejorative term used by the United States to refer to Germans during World War I.

What are Huns?

500

This is the German term for a submarine (the full name in German, please!)

What is an unterseeboot?