Ending WWI Flashcards
When did fighting end on the Eastern Front during WWI?
15th December 1917
How many men had joined the Army in Russia during WWI?
Over 15 million
By 1916, how many Russians had been killed in WWI?
Over a million
When did the Tsar return from the front in Russia?
March 1917
When did the Tsar of Russia abdicate?
15th march 1917
When did the Russian Provisional Government order a new attack on Germany?
July 1917
When did Lenin and the Bolsheviks overthrow the provisional government?
November 1917
When did Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
March 1918
What percentage of its population, farmland, railways and coal and iron ore did Russia lose in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
26% of population, 27% of farmland, 26% of railways, 74% of coal and iron ore
How much money did American banks lend to Britain and its allies before American joined WWI?
Around 2 billion dollars
When did Americans discover that Germany was trying to forge a secret alliance with Mexico against the USA?
March 1917
When did America declare war on Germany and enter WWI?
April 1917
As part of the secret alliance Germany was trying to forge, which states would Mexico claim from the USA?
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona
What resources did the USA have huge supplies of?
Coal, oil iron, cotton and wheat
By the end of WWI, how much meat and how many horses had America sent to Europe?
Nearly 90,000 tonnes of meat, 600,000 horses
Since which date had some larger battleships carried floatplanes?
Early as 1912
When did an aeroplane first (think so) land on the deck of HMS Argus?
October 1918
Which ship was the first aircraft carrier?
British ship HMS Argus
Who invented the hydrophone?
Canadian inventor Reginald Fessenden
When was the hydrophone invented?
1914
When did the sinking of the Titanic occur?
1912
How many British ships were painted in a “dazzle” style?
Over 2000
What was the “dazzle” painting style and what was its purpose?
Used bold shapes, lines and contrasting colours not to camouflage ship, but to distort submarine commander’s view of the ship and make it difficult to assess size, shape and range
Who developed the first synchronised mechanism to allow machine guns to fire between the propeller blades of an aeroplane?
Dutch engineer working for the Germans Anthony Fokker