Basic Facts
Another name for WWI.
What is The Great War
loyalty to ones country
What is Patriotism
President of the USA during WWI
Who is President Woodrow Wilson
Used to kill rats as well as bring messages and first aid to soldiers on the field during WWI
What are dogs
first implemented by the Germans as a wartime measure to conserve coal
What is Daylight savings
The organized spreading of information in order to persuade people to adopt a certain position.
What is propaganda
When WWI ended
What is the 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month of 1918
the battle line that stretched across northern France and Belgium
What is the Western Front
seized control of the government in Russia and immediately set about negotiating peace with Germany.
Who is Vladimir Lenin
1st used by the Germans, they could reach up to 130 feet
What are Flamethrowers?
detected enemy tunneling
What is the Geophone?
sold to citizens by a government in order to help pay for a war
What is a War Bond
The year that WWI started.
What is 1914
2 of the 3 things Americans did to protest against Germans
What is the burning of German books, the killing of German shepherd dogs, and even the renaming of sauerkraut to liberty cabbage
Made up The Central Powers
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire
carried messages between headquarters and the front lines
What are pigeons
synchronization gear which hydraulically timed gunfire to miss the rotation of the propeller
What is the Interrupter
The combined efforts of those at home as well as those in the military to win a war.
What is War Effort
the straw that broke the camels back on the American decision to enter the war
What is the sinking of The Lusitania
sophisticated German military strategy which envisioned the conquest of France
What is the Schlieffen Plan,
The main countries that made up the Allies
Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States of America
The number of countries that fought in WWI
What is 30
sewn into the flying suits of aviators
What are zippers?
The faction that split apart from the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
What are the Bolsheviks
It officially ended WWI
What is the Treaty of Versailles of 1919
Tell me about The Zimmerman Telegraph
On January 16, 1917, British code breakers intercepted an encrypted message from Zimmermann intended for Heinrich von Eckardt, the German ambassador to Mexico. The it gave the ambassador a set of instructions: if the neutral United States entered the war on the side of the Allies, Von Eckardt was to approach Mexico’s president with an offer to forge a secret wartime alliance. The Germans would provide military and financial support for a Mexican attack on the United States, and in exchange Mexico would be free to annex “lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.”
This sparked the beginning of WWI
What is the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand
6 weapons that were used for the first time during WWI
Barbed wire, poisonous gas, tanks, Machine guns, Flamethrowers, Steel helmets, The geophone, Flare pistols, Depth charges, Anti-aircraft guns, Interrupter gear
The different use for Cellucotton Red Cross nurses found during WWI
What are sanitary pads
Their role was to oversee the war effort in the US. They targeted citizens from German decent causing some citizens to respond by changing their German names.
Commission of Public Safety