Show:
Origins and Causes
Impact of WWI
Early Battles
The Eastern Front
Stalemate: Trench Warefare
on the Western Front
100
The place where WW1 began
What is the Balkans?
100
The term _______ refers to the total of those killed, seriously injured, and prisoners of war.
What is casualties?
100
The country that Germany crossed in order to get to France
What is Belgium?
100
Country that put a prohibition on alcohol to avoid the time-consuming traditional village drinking bouts that accompanied conscription
What is Russia?
100
Ten kilograms (22 pounds) of fodder
What is the amount a horse ate per day?
200
The country that initiated the Second Balkan War
What is Bulgaria?
200
Inspired the Polish liberal national uprising
What is the French and American Revolutions?
200
The basic French war plan created by General Joseph-Jacques-Césaire Joffre
What is Plan 17?
200
Malorusskie
What is Little Russians?
200
The range of machine guns in 1914
What is 1 kilometer?
300
Led the way with industrialization
What is Britain?
300
Communists seized power in ____ for nine months
What is Hungary?
300
The time needed for Germany to defeat France and to succeed with the Schlieffen Plan
What is 1 month?
300
Battle of Gumbinnen
What is Russia's first victory?
300
The battle in which the first orders were given by the German Army to dig a formidable trench system along the north bank of the Aisne River
What is the Battle of the Marne?
400
Making and breaking alliances at will in order to maintain a balance of power in Europe and solve international disputes without a disastrous large-scale war
What is Realpolitik?
400
The year that Germany created a united country
What is 1871?
400
Belgiums modern fortress complexes, which were their most impressive military assets.
What is Liège and Namur?
400
He entered the war with the fatalistic comment that “history will condemn me…but I have given the order to march."
What is Iakov Zhilinskii?
400
The great munitions producers
What is the German Krupp and Austrian Skoda?
500
Two regions of mixed Frenach and German population, that France was forced to give along with recognizing German unification.
What is Alsace and Lorraine?
500
Historian that stated, without WWI, or even with a quick German victory, “Adolf Hitler could have eked out his life as a mediocre postcard painter…. And Lenin could have carried on his splenetic scribbling in Zurich, forever waiting for capitalism to collapse—and forever disappointed.”
Who is Niall Ferguson?
500
Marked the decisive end of the Schlieffen Plan
What is The Battle of the Marne?
500
Battle of Lwów
What is the first major Entente victory in the war?
500
He informed German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg that the war had become unwinnable and proposed negotiating a peace treaty with Russia.
Who is German Chief of Staff Erich von Falkenhayn?