The Great War started in what year?

By 1882 German created the Triple Alliance with what 2 countries? Select all that apply.

The Triple Entente contained of France and what two other countries? Select all that apply.

What is the capital of Bosnia?

The news of the royal visit from Archduke Franz Ferdinand angered many Serbian Nationalists because of what?

The Black Hand was the name of what countries terrorist group?

The Black Hand vowed to take action against who in 1914

Fact: The archduke and his wife, Sophie, traveled through Sarajevo in an open (convertible)

car which left them vulnerable.

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Who was the assassinator of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

When news of the assassination reached Vienna (the capital of Austria-Hungary), the government blamed and wanted to punish Serbia because they felt they had something to do with the assassination.

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Ultimatum means what?

FACT: Austria’s alliance with Germany affected Austria’s reaction to the assassination of

Francis Ferdinand because it prompted Austria to take a firmer stand against Serbia.

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At the outbreak of the war, What 2 countries supported Serbia?

What does Mobilize mean?

When Germany demanded that France keep out of the conflict, France refused, what did Germany do after that?

What is Neutrality mean?

Germany invaded what neutral country on August 3, 1914?

FACT: On August 4, 1914 Britain respond to Germany’s invasion of a neutral Belgium by

declaring war on Germany.

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After the war, what country was blamed for the war? P.S Years after the war most historians agree that all countries involved in war share all the blame.

FACT: Following the Schlieffen Plan, German forces fought their way through Belgium

toward France.

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What is a stalemate?

FACT: No-Man’s-Land was the barbed wire-covered land between the trenches of the two

armies.

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FACT: To “go over the top” meant climbing out of the trenches and attacking the trenches

of the enemy.

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The Britain suffered how many casualties on the Battle of Somme?

FACT: Shrapnel is the flying debris from artillery shells.

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What did nations do to break the stalemate of trench warfare?

FACT: During World War I, advances in technology, such as the gasoline-powered engine,

led the opposing forces to use tanks, airplanes, and submarines against each other.

Great Britain developed the first tank in 1916.

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What are Zeppelins?

FACT: U-boats (Unterseeboot) is the nickname the Germans gave their submarines.

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What is a convoy?

What does "Total War" mean

FACT: Contraband means “during wartime, military supplies and raw materials needed to

make military supplies that may legally be confiscated by any belligerent”.

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At the start of the war, Great Britain’s navy formed a what in the North Sea to keep ships from carrying supplies in and out?

What ship was sunk by German torpedoes?

FACT: Propaganda means “spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an

opposing cause”.

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Vladimir Lenin came to power of what country on October of 1917 in the second revolution of that country?

FACT: Atrocities are “horrible acts committed against innocent people”.

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FACT: Fourteen Points was name of the list of terms calling for resolving WWI and future

wars which was outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918.

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Self-Determination means what?

FACT: Germany sought an armistice (an agreement to end fighting in a war) with the Allies

ending the Great War at 11 A.M. on November 11, 1918.

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How many people died in WW1?

How many soldiers were injured in WW1?

What is a pandemic?

How many Civilians were injured in WW1?

FACT: The Allies blamed the conflict on their defeated foes and insisted that the losers

make reparations or payments for war damage.

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FACT: Political radicals or people who wanted to make extreme changes, dreamed of building a new social order from the chaos. Conservatives warned against the spread of Bolshevism, or communism, as it was soon called.

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FACT: The Treaty of Versailles created a climate that played a large part in leading to WWII in Europe because Germany was forced to accept harsh treaty terms which they eventually wanted to undo as well as wanted to seek revenge.

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