The buildup of a nation's armed forces, mandatory conscription, and glorification of war.
What is militarism?
Type of chemical warfare.
What is mustard gas?
What is England, specifically, Devon.
Russia.
What is Allied?
The United States.
Who are Allied, officially in 1917?
These dragged countries into conflicts that they weren't necessarily directly involved with. The Triple Entente and the one with Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans were the ones that expanded World War I.
What are alliances?
These were mostly used for scouting the enemy, in WWII they would be heavily utilized for dropping bombs.
What are airplanes?
Albie's father (Ted Narracott) was a veteran of these wars in South Africa.
What were the Boer Wars?
Germany.
What are Central Powers?
Russia withdrew from the war in 1917 for this reason.
What is their own revolution against their Czarist government had started?
Gaining and competing over natural resources and markets to sell products from this event of the 19th century that began in Great Britain and spread to western Europe and the United States is also a cause of World War I.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
These types of guns would largely replace rifles and other handheld firearms.
What are machine guns?
The punishment (in most militaries, during a time of war) was this, as we saw in the movie.
What is to be shot and executed?
Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Who are the Central Powers?
Japan.
Who were the Allied Power?
Extreme pride in one's country was used to unite people and make them willing to die for their countries, even if they didn't fully understand or agree with the reason they were fighting a war.
What is nationalism?
Underwater vessels that could strike without warning. The Germans utilized this heavily and it led to the development of radar to detect them.
What are submarines or U-boats?
The horses that were taken by the Germans would be used for this purpose until they died.
What is to pull artillery equipment?
Ottoman Empire.
Who were the Central Powers?
Italy.
What is they started out in an alliance with the Central Powers but switched sides and fought for the Allied Powers?
Troops served in Europe from as far away as India, Algeria, French Indochina (Vietnam), New Zealand, Australia, and West Africa. This is an example of another cause of the war. The competition to build empires and colonialism brought those men to Europe.
What is imperialism?
This metal material was strewn throughout no-man's land and made movement painful, dangerous, stuck, and deadly.
What is barbed wire?
The reason the German soldiers were permitted to take whatever they wanted from the French grandfather and the little French girl, Emilie.
What is because it is war, they're completed armed and they don't have choice?
France.
Who were the Allied Powers?
Bulgaria.
Who were the Central Powers?