1914-1918 Flashcards

1
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What two years did Germany declare unrestricted submarine warfare?

A

1915
1917

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2
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What year was the battle of Jutland?

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1916

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3
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What year was Archduke Ferninand and his wife assassinated?

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1914

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4
Q

In chronological order:
USA fights in war
Germany invaded Belgium
Archduke Fras Ferninand is assassinated
Ottoman Empire declares war against Allies

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Archduke Fras Ferninand is assassinated

Germany invaded Belgium

Ottoman Empire declares war against Allies

USA fights in war

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5
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What year was the British passenger liner, Lusitania, sunk by U boats?

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1915

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6
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What year did the Ottoman Empire declare war against the Allies?

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1914

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7
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What year did Lenin and the Bolsiviks come to power?

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1918

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8
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What year did the Russian civil war start?

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1917

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9
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What year did Germany enact the Schlieffen plan?

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1914

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10
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What year did Rasputin send Tsar to the front lines to command the Russian military?

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1915

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11
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What year was the Battle of Verdun and Somme?

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1917

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12
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What year was Serbia defeated?

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1915

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13
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What year did the USA start fighting in the war?

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1918

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14
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Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II pledges to support Austria-Hungary

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1914

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15
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Austria-Hungary issues Serbia with a ten-point ultimatum

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1914

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16
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Battle of Tannenberg

17
Q

Russia attacks eastern Prussia.

18
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The French stop the German advance on Paris at the Marne River with help from Paris taxis

19
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The First Battle of the Marne

20
Q

The first battle of Ypres

21
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Ottoman Empire joins the war alongside the Central Powers.

22
Q

Britain, France and Russia declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

23
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the British attack the Ottoman Empire at the Dardanelles Strait

24
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Christmas Day truce

25
The British parliament passes the Military Service Act,
1916
26
The Russians attack at Brislov on the Eastern Front.
1916
27
Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin
1916
28
Russians overthrew the Tsar
1917
29
Germany invents bomber planes.
1917
30
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed by Germany and Soviet Russia
1918
31
When the Americans arrived in England,
1918
32
The German gun ‘Big Bertha’, the largest artillery piece used in World War I, fires shells at Paris from 75 miles away.
1918
33
The Americans met them at Belleau Wood and defeated the Germans.
1918
34
The deposed Tsar Nicholas II and his family are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in Ekaterinburg
1918
35
Allied posted a summer offensive named The Grand Offensive.
1918
36
Austria-Hungary surrenders.. Then the Ottoman Empire surrenders... then Bulgaria surrenders.
1918
37
the German kaiser abdicated (leaves) the throne.
1918