World War I

Question 1

What is the Reinsurance Treaty?

Answer 1

A treaty made in 1887 (Prior to WWI) between Russia and Germany stating that if either country were declared war upon, the other country would remain neutral.

Question 2

What is the Krugar Telegram?

Answer 2

Willy’s message to Mr. Kruger congratulating him on being able to defeat a British raid, enraged the British, worsening relations between Germany and Great Britain.

Question 3

dreadnaughts

Answer 3

super battleships

Question 4

What was Britain’s relationship with Belgium?

Answer 4

Belgium were secret allies with Britain and when Germany attacked Belgium, Britain joined the war.

Question 5

Big Bertha

Answer 5

large artillery gun

Question 6

Where and when was the Archduke assassinated?

Answer 6

Sarajevo on Vidovnan Day

Question 7

Who was in the Triple Alliance before 1914?

Answer 7

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Question 8

What is the Treaty of London?

Answer 8

A secret pact between the Triple Entente and Italy. TE wanted the alliance of Italy against its former allies, (TA) including Germany.

Question 9

Which country supported Serbia?

Answer 9

Russia

Question 10

Ferdinand Foch

Answer 10

Supreme ally commander of the Triple Entente.

Question 11

What was the Schlieffen Plan?

Answer 11

The Schlieffen Plan was the German plan for war against Russia and France. The German army were to launch a surprise invasion on France through Belgium.

Question 12

Who is John Babcock?

Answer 12

The last WWI Canadian veteran.

Question 13

What is the blank check?

Answer 13

A blank check that Germany gave to A-H as guarantee of almost unconditional support in any war arising should Russia interfere.

Question 14

What sunk the Lusitania?

Answer 14

The U-20 submarine, belongs to Germany

Question 15

What is the sussex pledge?

Answer 15

The Sussex pledge was an agreement between the U.S and Germany. German officials promised during WW1 not to sink merchant vessels without warning or without assuring the passengers safety.

Question 16

Germany is limited to how many warships (not dreadnoughts) and soldiers?

Answer 16

6 and 100,000

Question 17

What was the name of the German’s (Triple Alliance) special machine gun?

Answer 17

MG08

Question 18

What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

Answer 18

A peace treaty marking Russia’s exit from World War I.

Question 19

Which two international waterway straits did Russia want to control.

Answer 19

Dardanelles and Bosphorus.

Question 20

Where was the first major bate in 1916 located at?

Answer 20

Leige, Belgium

Question 21

Which battle holds the largest amount of soldiers dead on the first day?

Answer 21

Battle of the Somme

Question 22

Which two cities does Germany win from France, but then has to give them back.

Answer 22

Alsace and Lorraine

Question 23

What kind of government does Germany become after the war?

Answer 23

A democratic government called the Weimar Republic.

Question 24

What was the Big Four?

Answer 24

A group that made the major decisions which led the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 25

Who were in the Big Four?

Answer 25

George of Britain, Georges of France, Woodrow of US, and Orlando of Italy.

Question 26

What were the two Canadian warships?

Answer 26

Rainbow and Naoibi

Question 27

Who assassinated Franz Ferdinand?

Answer 27

Gavrilo Princip

Question 28

What was the Black Hand?

Answer 28

A terrorist group that wants to create a Yugoslavia.

Question 29

What was the Triple Ententes version of maxim machine gun called?

Answer 29

Vickers

Question 30

How much money does the US loan to the Triple Entente?

Answer 30

$10 billion.

Question 31

What is the Treaty of Frankfurt?

Answer 31

It is a peace treaty signed at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. France lost Alsace and Lorraine to Germany.

Question 32

Who provided cree code talkers?

Answer 32

Canada

Question 33

Who provides weapons for the Black Hand?

Answer 33

Serbia

Question 34

Who wants to build aBerlin to Baghdad railway?

Answer 34

Germany

Question 35

What is Anschluss?

Answer 35

Austria can never unite with Germany.

Question 36

What was the guilt clause that was on Germany?

Answer 36

Guilt Clause #231

Question 37

How much was Germany required to pay in total?

Answer 37

$33 billion in gold.

Question 38

How long was Rhineland demilitarized for?

Answer 38

15 years

Question 39

What kind of country will Russia become?

Answer 39

Communist, lead by Lenin

Question 40

Last soldier killed before armistice?

Answer 40

George Price

Question 41

First Canadian soldier killed?

Answer 41

Belanger

Question 42

First allied casualty killed?

Answer 42

MJ Dease

Question 43

Who/What is Sudetenland?

Answer 43

Those in the northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers.

Question 44

Where was the 1st allied victory by Foch on the Western front?

Answer 44

Vimy Ridge Battle

Question 45

What does chlorine gas do?

Answer 45

Burns the eyes, lungs, skin.

Question 46

What does mustard gas do?

Answer 46

Corrodes lungs

Question 47

Who is given a German corridor?

Answer 47

Poland

Question 48

What is the Zimmerman telegram?

Answer 48

It was a telegram from Germany to Mexico trying to get them to attack the United States.

Question 49

Who took Bosnia from Serbia?

Answer 49

Austria-Hungary

Question 50

Who was in the Triple Entente?

Answer 50

Britain, France, and Russia

Question 51

What is conscription?

Answer 51

Compulsory military service and was a serious political issue in Canada during the war.

Question 52

What was the steady income per day of the Canadians in the war?

Answer 52

$1.10/day

Question 53

What was the Canadian rifle called?

Answer 53

Ross Rifle

Question 54

What did Austria-Hungary wanted access to?

Answer 54

The Adriatic Sea via Montenegro.

Question 55

What did Russia want access to?

Answer 55

The Mediterranean Sea

Question 56

What group supplied terrorists with their weapons?

Answer 56

The Commitachi

Question 57

Where was chlorine gas first used?

Answer 57

Ypres

Question 58

Which country had the strongest navy?

Answer 58

Britain

Question 59

What is a fokker?

Answer 59

Airplanes that fire machine guns through propellors.

Question 60

What was the scorched earth policy?

Answer 60

When the Germans deliberately burned and looted on a massive scale during their retreat from the war.

Question 61

Which Canadian general led the assault on Vimy Ridge?

Answer 61

Arthur Curry

Question 62

Slavic countries would like to create an independent _________________.

Answer 62

Yugoslavia

Question 63

German's flying ace?

Answer 63

Red Baran

Question 64

Canada's best known ace?

Answer 64

Big Willy

Question 65

What protected the arrival of US troops after two years?

Answer 65

convoys

Question 66

System developed by the allies to counter the German U-boat menace and help merchant ships to reach Britain with fewer losses.

Answer 66

convoy