Trench Warfare
This type of warfare involved soldiers fighting from long, narrow trenches to avoid enemy fire.
What is trench warfare?
This painful condition was caused by soldiers standing in cold, wet trenches for long periods.
What is trench foot?
This 1914 battle stopped Germany’s advance just outside Paris.
What is the First Battle of the Marne?
Germany’s plan to avoid a two-front war by quickly defeating France.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
The Treaty of Versailles helped lead to this global conflict.
What is World War II?
World War I trench warfare was used primarily on this front in Europe.
What is the Western Front?
This weapon could fire hundreds of rounds per minute and made advancing across open land deadly.
What is the machine gun?
This 1914 battle helped solidify trench lines from the North Sea to Switzerland.
What is the First Battle of Ypres?
Germany planned to invade this neutral country to reach France quickly.
What is Belgium?
This clause forced Germany to accept full blame for the war.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
The area between opposing trenches filled with barbed wire and shell holes.
What is No Man’s Land?
The deadliest weapon of World War I, responsible for most casualties.
What is artillery?
A 1916 battle where Germany tried to “bleed France dry.”
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This country entered the war to defend Belgium’s neutrality.
What is Great Britain?
Official name of the meeting that decided the fate of Germany
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
A deadlock where neither side could advance, common during trench warfare.
What is a stalemate?
This new weapon burned the skin, eyes, and lungs and created terror on the battlefield.
What is poison gas?
This 1916 battle marked the first major use of tanks.
What is the Battle of the Somme?
Germany’s plan failed because this eastern country mobilized faster than expected.
What is Russia?
Payments Germany was required to make to the Allied powers.
What are reparations?
These trenches connected front-line, support, and reserve trenches.
What are communication trenches?
Introduced by the British in 1916, this weapon was designed to cross trenches and crush barbed wire.
What are tanks?
This battle became a symbol of French determination and endurance.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
This empire joined the war, although they would collapse after WW1
Who is the Ottoman Empire?
The territory that Germany had to demilitarize after WW1
What is the Rhineland?