Causes & Events
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The assassination of this Archduke in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, sparked the outbreak of the war.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This man served as President of the United States throughout World War I.
This immobile method of fighting, where troops lived and battled from ditches, defined much of the Western Front.
What is the Battle of Verdun?
Fought in France, this grueling 1916 clash resulted in roughly 700,000 total casualties, becoming one of the longest and deadliest battles of the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This significant document was signed in 1919 at a grand palace near Paris, placing heavy reparations and guilt solely upon Germany.
The 1917 secret communication intercepted by the British, in which Germany promised U.S. territories to Mexico
She supported the French war effort by operating portable X-ray units in ambulances, becoming known as "Petites Curies"
What are tanks?
First introduced at the Battle of the Somme in 1916, these heavily armored vehicles were designed to cross no-man's-land and break through barbed wire.
What is the Gallipoli Campaign? [1]
40,000 Allied troops, including many from Australia and New Zealand, died in this tragic and unsuccessful campaign on a Turkish peninsula.
What is November 11?
Fighting officially ceased when an armistice was signed in a railway carriage in Compiegne on this specific date in 1918.
What is the Lusitania?
On May 7, 1915, a German U-boat torpedoed this British passenger liner off the coast of Ireland, killing over a hundred Americans.
This general led the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) and was nicknamed "Black Jack".
These underwater, stealthy vessels were known by their German name, short for Unterseeboot.
What is the Argonne (or Meuse-Argonne)?
ot to be confused with the Ardennes, this dense French forest was the site of the largest and deadliest WWI battle fought by the American Expeditionary Forces.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
Russian participation in the war was officially ended via this 1918 peace treaty negotiated between the Bolsheviks and Germany.