1914-1918 Flashcards

1
Q

What two years did Germany declare unrestricted submarine warfare?

A

1915
1917

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2
Q

What year was the battle of Jutland?

A

1916

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3
Q

What year was Archduke Ferninand and his wife assassinated?

A

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

A

Archduke Fras Ferninand is assassinated

Germany invaded Belgium

Ottoman Empire declares war against Allies

USA fights in war

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5
Q

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

A

1915

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6
Q

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

A

1914

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7
Q

What year did Lenin and the Bolsiviks come to power?

A

1918

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8
Q

What year did the Russian civil war start?

A

1917

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9
Q

What year did Germany enact the Schlieffen plan?

A

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?

A

1915

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11
Q

What year was the Battle of Verdun and Somme?

A

1917

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12
Q

What year was Serbia defeated?

A

1915

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13
Q

What year did the USA start fighting in the war?

A

1918

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14
Q

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

A

1914

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15
Q

Austria-Hungary issues Serbia with a ten-point ultimatum

A

1914

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16
Q

Battle of Tannenberg

A

1914

17
Q

Russia attacks eastern Prussia.

A

1914

18
Q

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

A

1914

19
Q

The First Battle of the Marne

A

1914

20
Q

The first battle of Ypres

A

1914

21
Q

Ottoman Empire joins the war alongside the Central Powers.

A

1914

22
Q

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

A

1914

23
Q

the British attack the Ottoman Empire at the Dardanelles Strait

A

1915

24
Q

Christmas Day truce

A

1915

25
Q

The British parliament passes the Military Service Act,

A

1916

26
Q

The Russians attack at Brislov on the Eastern Front.

A

1916

27
Q

Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin

A

1916

28
Q

Russians overthrew the Tsar

A

1917

29
Q

Germany invents bomber planes.

A

1917

30
Q

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk is signed by Germany and Soviet Russia

A

1918

31
Q

When the Americans arrived in England,

A

1918

32
Q

The German gun ‘Big Bertha’, the largest artillery piece used in World War I, fires shells at Paris from 75 miles away.

A

1918

33
Q

The Americans met them at Belleau Wood and defeated the Germans.

A

1918

34
Q

The deposed Tsar Nicholas II and his family are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in Ekaterinburg

A

1918

35
Q

Allied posted a summer offensive named The Grand Offensive.

A

1918

36
Q

Austria-Hungary surrenders.. Then the Ottoman Empire surrenders… then Bulgaria surrenders.

A

1918

37
Q

the German kaiser abdicated (leaves) the throne.

A

1918