World War 1 - Part 1

Question 1

What are the causes of World War 1?

Answer 1

1. Nationalism
2. Imperialism
3. Technology/Weapons

Question 2

How did WW1 start?

Answer 2

1. Serbia wants to obtain land lost to Albania back from Albania
   A. Serbian ultra-nationalist group BLACK HAND plans to assasinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo, Servia
   B. BLACK HAND fails
   C.Nationalist Gavrilo Princip kills Ferdinand and his wife
2. Austria- Hungary demands from Serbia
   A. Reparations - monetary payments for damages to an item, person, mind
   B. Place Austrian-Hungary official in Serbia to investigate the assasination
   C. Serbia refuses —>Austria-Hungary invades—>Russia (ally of Serbia) declares war on Austria-Hungary

Question 3

Which countries were in the triple entente?

Answer 3

1. Great Britain
2. France
3. Russia

Question 4

Which countries were in the triple alliance?

Answer 4

1. Germany
2. Italy
3. Austria-Hungary

Question 5

Which countries were the allied powers?

Answer 5

1. Great Britain
2. France
3. Italy (changed sides)
4. Russia
5. Romania
6. Serbia
7. Japan

Question 6

Which countries were the Central Powers?

Answer 6

1. Germany
2. Austria-Hungary
3. Ottoman Empire
4. Bulgaria

Question 7

What was the Schieffen plan?

Answer 7

1. Created by Alfred Von Scheiffen
2. Plan in order to prevent a 2 front war
   A. Germany will attack France by going through Belgium to bypass French defenses to surround Paris and demand France to surrender
   B. Germany will then move its troops by train to the eastern side of the country and fight Russia

Question 8

Why does Great Britain join WW1?

Answer 8

Belgium wanted to remain neutral and was protected by Great Britain.
Germany breaks its neutrality by attacking France through Belgium.
Great Britain joins the war.

Question 9

What happens at the first Battle of the Marne?

Answer 9

Germany was almost successful in defeating France, but fails to take Paris.
France holds on to Paris.

Question 10

Why did Germany fail to defeat France in the Battle of Marne?

Answer 10

1. German army was spread out
2. No communication between army groups
3. Middle of the attack was vulnerable

Question 11

What is trench warefare?

Answer 11

1. Old style of fighting
2. Defensive lines dug into the ground with bunkers
3. Slow fighting, lots of death with little land to gain

Question 12

What is “No Man’s Land”?

Answer 12

The stretch of land between the trenches of opposing sides

Question 13

What was built at the front of a trench system?

Answer 13

Barbed wire fencing

Question 14

How many trenches were there in a typical trench system and what were they called?

Answer 14

Three

1. Front trench
2. Support trench
3. Reserve trench

Question 15

What was located at the back of the trench system?

Answer 15

Long range artillery (at about 10 km behind the front line)

Question 16

Where were machine guns placed in the trench system?

Answer 16

In concrete block houses near the support trench.

Question 17

What was the purpose of airplanes in trench warefare?

Answer 17

To warn of the build up pf enemy troop before an attack

Question 18

What was the purpose of dugouts in the trench system?

Answer 18

Frontline dugouts provide some protection, but not against a direct hit from an artillery shell.
Deeper (15m) dugouts (near the support trench) were well constructed and did provide protection from artillery shells

Question 19

What is trench foot?

Answer 19

Foot injury caused by feet being wet for too long.

Question 20

What is “chatting”?

Answer 20

Groups of men sitting around talking while killing lice with thier fingernails or candles

Question 21

Why was gas so scary?

Answer 21

It reacts with water in airways to create acid resulting in swelling and blocked airways leading to suffocation
It also reacts with water in the eyes and causes blondness

Question 22

What new weapons were used during WW1?

Answer 22

1. Machine guns
2. Gas
3. Artillery
4. Tanks
5. Planes
6. U-boats
7. Dreadnoughts

Question 23

What was the deadliest weapon?

Answer 23

Machine guns

Question 24

What was the purpose of artillery?

Answer 24

1. Create holes in trenches
2. Destroy barb wire
3. Kill soldiers

Question 25

What was Big Bertha?

Answer 25

The largest and most powerful artillery weapon used during WW 1.

Question 26

What was the purpose of tanks?

Answer 26

To protect soldiers across the battlefield

Question 27

What are the drawbacks of using tanks?

Answer 27

They are slow, loud and hard to breathe in

Question 28

What were planes used for in WW1?

Answer 28

1. As scouts/reconnaissance

2. Dogfighting between planes, bombing trenches and ships

Question 29

Who was the best known fighter pilot of WW1?

Answer 29

The Red Baron

Question 30

What are U-boats?

Answer 30

German submarines which were used to destroy warships and transport ships.
Scary, ungentlemanly type of warfare.

Question 31

What were dreadnoughts?

Answer 31

Large battleships with heavy guns