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The immediate cause of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg. It was occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia when they were mortally wounded by Gavrilo Princip. Born into a Bosnian Serb peasant family, Princip was trained in terrorism by the Serbian secret society. What is the name of that Serbian secret society?
Black Hands
The Grand Orange Lodge
The Molly Maguires
Ku Klux Klan
Due to a revolution occured in 1917 this nation was first to officially leave World War I. What is this European country that is an one of the most highlighted nations among the World War history?
Turkey
France
Italy
Russia
David Lloyd George was a Welsh statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922, at the end of World War 1. But he wasn't the British Prime Minister at the start of World War 1. Then who was the British Prime Minister at the start of World War 1?
Neville Chamberlain
Stanley Baldwin
Clement Attlee
H.H. Asquith
U-boat submarines was a one of the major attacking power of Germany during the both World Wars. U-boat is an anglicized version of the German word.t. While the German term refers to any submarine, the English one refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars. In the word U-Boat what is the German word that shortened as U?
Urlaub
Unterseeboot
Unterführer
Ubootabwehrschule
This person was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, reigning from 15 June 1888 until his abdication on 9 November 1918, the end of World War 1. As the eldest grandchild of Queen Victoria, this person's first cousins included King George V of the United Kingdom and many princesses who, along with his sister Sophia, became European consorts. Identify this personality who was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I.
Wilhelm II
Frederick I
Otto von Bismarck
Paul von Hindenburg
This was a ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew including 128 Americans. The sinking occurred about two years before the United States declaration of war on Germany. Although the this sinking was a major factor in building support for a war, war was eventually declared only after the Imperial German Government resumed the use of unrestricted submarine warfare against American shipping in an attempt to break the transatlantic supply chain from the USA to Britain, and after the Zimmermann Telegram. Identify this ship.
RMS Lusitania
USS Arizona
RMS Olympic
HMHS Britannic
This was the imperialist foreign policy adopted by the German Empire during the reign of Emperor Wilhelm II. The aim was to transform Germany into a global power. Though considered a logical consequence of the German unification by a broad spectrum of Wilhelmine society. Identify this German word?
Weltpolitik
Realpolitik
Stinkenpolitik
Einkommenspolitik
This battle was a naval battle fought between Britain's Royal Navy Grand Fleet and the Imperial German Navy's High Seas Fleet during the First World War from 31 May to 1 June 1916, off the North Sea coast of a peninsula in Denmark that has the same name as the battle . It was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in that war. It was the third fleet action between steel battleships, following the Battle of the Yellow Sea in 1904 and the decisive Battle of Tsushima in 1905, during the Russo-Japanese War. It was the last major battle in world history fought primarily by battleships. Identify this battle that is also the only naval battle fought in the North Sea during the World War 1.
Battle of Jutland
Battle of Dogger Bank
Battle of Verdun
Battle of Trafalgar
This was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 in a the upper reaches of a river bankin France. The battle was intended to hasten a victory for the Allies. More than three million men fought in the battle and one million men were wounded or killed, making it one of the deadliest battles in human history. British forces first used tanks during this Battle in September 1916 and it was the first occasion used a tank for a battle. They had a dramatic effect on German morale and proved effective in crossing trenches and wire entanglements, but they failed to break through the German lines. Identify this battle that marked the end of Britain’s “Pals Battalions.”
Battle of River Somme
Battle of River Seine
Battle of River Danube
Battle of River Rhine
She was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during World War I. Despite her having admitted under interrogation to taking money to work as a German spy, She was executed by firing squad in France. Identify this woman?
Mata Hari
Virginia Hall
Krystyna Skarbek
Vera Atkins
Trench warfare is a type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines largely comprising military trenches, in which troops are well-protected from the enemy's small arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery. Trench warfare became archetypically associated with World War I (1914–1918). Which of the following fronts used this warfare when the Race to the Sea rapidly expanded trench use in the war starting in September 1914?
Western Front
Eastern Front
Sothern Front
Northern Front
What is the holiday commemorating the British service members who have died in wars and other military conflicts since the onset of World War I?
Remembrance Day
ANZAK Day
Memorial Day
Armistice Day
The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively and remains the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict. This atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II. It was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. The bomb was dropped by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. and Captain Robert A. Lewis. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT. The Hiroshima bombing was the second man-made nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test. What was the the codename for the nuclear bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Hiroshima?
Little Boy
Fat Man
Manhattan UV
Laughing Buddha
What type of a creature was "Cher Ami" who won the French Cross for Bravery during the WW1 for saving 194 soldiers?
Pigeon
Dog
Horse
Cat
The Zimmermann Telegram was a controversial telegram penned by Arthur Zimmermann of the German to which country, urging them to declare war against the USA?
Mexico
Canada
Italy
Japan
The German Army invaded which country on the 1st September 1939, to kick start the WW2?
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Russia
France
Which General led the Free French Army in the liberation of Paris and later became the President of France?
Charles de Gaulle
Marshall Henry Paten
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Maurice Gustave Gamelin
What was the name of German Air Force during the WW2, which was led by Hermann Goring?
Lutwaffe
Gestapo
Blientzcrieg
Rintgotpen
Who was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces who ultimately let the Allied Army in the final stages of the World War 2 and also the 34th President of USA from 1953 to 1961?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ulysses S. Grant
George Washington
Harry S. Truman
What was the first major and decisive victory the Russians had against the Germans, which was the largest battle of World War 2?
Battle of Stalingrad
Battle of Leningrad/Petrograd
Battle Of Moscow
Battle of River Volga
Normandy Landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. All these landings had taken place in the five beach heads of Dunkirk Beach in Normandy, France. In which year these landings taken place?
1944
1945
1942
1940
Who was the German Field Marshal nicknamed “Desert Fox" who was the most distinguished commander of the German Armies in the El Alamaine dessert battles?
Ervin Rommel
Hermann Goering
Adolf Eichmann
Heinrich Himmler
This was a part of the Japanese Special Attack Units of military aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional air attacks. About 3,800 pilots from this unit died during the war, and more than 7,000 naval personnel were killed by attacks by these unit. Identify this unit that has a literally meaning of Divine Wind.
Kamikaze
Yamazakura
Shikishima
Yalmekuishal
This Old Marshal, was a French general officer who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World War I, during which he became known as The Lion of Verdun and also the teacher of Charles de Gaulle. Identify this personality who signed an armistice with the Nazis and surrendered France to Germany in World War 2 and later he took office as “chief of state” at Vichy, a city in unoccupied France.
Phillipe Petain
Pierre Laval
Paul Reynaud
Ferdinand Foch
This was the an agreement signed in August 1945 between three of the Allies of World War II, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union. It concerned the military occupation and reconstruction of Germany, its borders, and the entire European Theatre of War territory. It also addressed Germany's demilitarisation, reparations, the prosecution of war criminals and the mass expulsion of ethnic Germans from various parts of Europe. What is this Agreement?
Potsdam Agreement
Versailles Agreement
The Paris Peace Treaties
Treaty of San Francisco
