Glossary Terms To Know For WW1

Question 1

The cessation of all hostilities prior to the beginning of official peace negotiations. A(n) _ is not a peace treaty and does not end war; it only stops all combat activities (usually for a fixed period o time ) so that negotiations got a permanent cease-fire can occur.

Answer 1

Armistice

Question 2

Any horrible and violent action taken against an innocent or unarmed person or group.

Answer 2

Atrocity

Question 3

The name given by the Allies to the German 420-mm artillery that could shoot a one-ton shell 9 miles

Answer 3

Big Bertha (Grosse Bertha in German)

Question 4

The act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment, abuse or attack

Answer 4

Attrition

Question 5

Refusal to take orders by military units; objection not to the war, but to the way it was conducted. ( describes the mass mutiny of the French army, April-July 1917.)

Answer 5

Collective indiscipline

Question 6

Time change invented by the British during the war to help save on coal burning so that more coal could be converted from home use to war use

Answer 6

Daylight Savings Time

Question 7

Name given to the American Soldiers. Most likely origin of this nickname is from the large brass buttons on the uniform of the Union soldiers during the American Civil War that looked like dumplings or “_”

Answer 7

Doughboys

Question 8

Class of super battleships introduced by Britain in 1906. Each ship carried ten 12-inch guns, had extra heavy armor and held a top speed of 21 knots; its nearest rival battleship carried only four 12-inch guns, had less armor and had a top speed of 18 knots

Answer 8

Dreadnought

Question 9

Slang for dead; also “gone west” and “bought the farm.”

Answer 9

Hanging on the wire

Question 10

German for “Caesar” or “Emperor”

Answer 10

Kaiser

Question 11

Original name given to tanks. “Tank” was used as a code name, so that if Germans intercepted a message they would think the Allies were only bringing tanks if water up to the front.

Answer 11

Land ships

Question 12

Original name given to flames shot from flame throwers. Introduced to by Germans at Verdun in 1916.

Answer 12

Liquid Fire

Question 13

All the activities associated with the armed forces of a nation to go to war.

Answer 13

Mobilization

Question 14

The policy of allowing peoples to determine their own form of government and national boundaries; the nations so created should be sovereign ones, independent of all controls by another nation.

Answer 14

National self-determination

Question 15

An expression referring to climbing out of a trench or over the front edge of the trench to begin moving across no man’s land

Answer 15

Over the top

Question 16

An artillery capable of firing shells 75 miles, but not as accurate as the Big Bertha; so named because it was first used to shell Paris.

Answer 16

Paris gun

Question 17

Ideas and messages created to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause and to persuade people to think in a particular way or to take particular actions

Answer 17

Propaganda

Question 18

Name given to the continuous series of flanking movements by the Germans and British in October and November 1914; resulted in a continuous line of trenches from the Marne to the English Channel.

Answer 18

Race to the sea

Question 19

A hand grenade attached to the end of a special wooden handle or “stick”

Answer 19

Stick bombs

Question 20

Russian for “Caesar” or “Emperor.”

Answer 20

Tsar

Question 21

Short for Unterseeboot, the German name for submarine.

Answer 21

U-boat

Question 22

Term for the daily deaths and other casualties in military units, whether or not in battle.

Answer 22

Wastage

Question 23

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Armistice

Answer 23

The cessation of all hostilities prior to the beginning of official peace negotiations. A(n) _ is not a peace treaty and does not end war; it only stops all combat activities (usually for a fixed period o time ) so that negotiations got a permanent cease-fire can occur.

Question 24

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Atrocity

Answer 24

Any horrible and violent action taken against an innocent or unarmed person or group.

Question 25

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Big Bertha (Grosse Bertha in German)

Answer 25

The name given by the Allies to the German 420-mm artillery that could shoot a one-ton shell 9 miles

Question 26

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Attrition

Answer 26

The act of weakening or exhausting by constant harassment, abuse or attack

Question 27

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Collective indiscipline

Answer 27

Refusal to take orders by military units; objection not to the war, but to the way it was conducted. ( describes the mass mutiny of the French army, April-July 1917.)

Question 28

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Daylight Savings Time

Answer 28

Time change invented by the British during the war to help save on coal burning so that more coal could be converted from home use to war use

Question 29

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Doughboys

Answer 29

Name given to the American Soldiers. Most likely origin of this nickname is from the large brass buttons on the uniform of the Union soldiers during the American Civil War that looked like dumplings or “_”

Question 30

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Dreadnought

Answer 30

Class of super battleships introduced by Britain in 1906. Each ship carried ten 12-inch guns, had extra heavy armor and held a top speed of 21 knots; its nearest rival battleship carried only four 12-inch guns, had less armor and had a top speed of 18 knots

Question 31

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Hanging on the wire

Answer 31

Slang for dead; also “gone west” and “bought the farm.”

Question 32

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Kaiser

Answer 32

German for “Caesar” or “Emperor”

Question 33

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Land ships

Answer 33

Original name given to tanks. “Tank” was used as a code name, so that if Germans intercepted a message they would think the Allies were only bringing tanks if water up to the front.

Question 34

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Liquid Fire

Answer 34

Original name given to flames shot from flame throwers. Introduced to by Germans at Verdun in 1916.

Question 35

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Mobilization

Answer 35

All the activities associated with the armed forces of a nation to go to war.

Question 36

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National self-determination

Answer 36

The policy of allowing peoples to determine their own form of government and national boundaries; the nations so created should be sovereign ones, independent of all controls by another nation.

Question 37

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Over the top

Answer 37

An expression referring to climbing out of a trench or over the front edge of the trench to begin moving across no man’s land

Question 38

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Paris gun

Answer 38

An artillery capable of firing shells 75 miles, but not as accurate as the Big Bertha; so named because it was first used to shell Paris.

Question 39

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Propaganda

Answer 39

Ideas and messages created to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause and to persuade people to think in a particular way or to take particular actions

Question 40

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Race to the sea

Answer 40

Name given to the continuous series of flanking movements by the Germans and British in October and November 1914; resulted in a continuous line of trenches from the Marne to the English Channel.

Question 41

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Stick bombs

Answer 41

A hand grenade attached to the end of a special wooden handle or “stick”

Question 42

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Tsar

Answer 42

Russian for “Caesar” or “Emperor.”

Question 43

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U-boat

Answer 43

Short for Unterseeboot, the German name for submarine.

Question 44

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Wastage

Answer 44

Term for the daily deaths and other casualties in military units, whether or not in battle.