World War I

Question 1

MAIN (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism)

Answer 1

These are the indirect causes of WWI:

Militarism: the belief or desire that a country should maintain a strong military and be prepared to use to defend or promote national interests

Alliances: relationships among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose

Imperialism: a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

Nationalism: a feeling that people have of being loyal to and proud of their country often with the belief that it is better and more important than other countries

Question 2

Triple Alliance

Answer 2

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy

Question 3

Triple Entente

Answer 3

France, Great Britain, and Russia

Question 4

Central Powers

Answer 4

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire

Question 5

Allies

Answer 5

France, Great Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy, and Canada

Question 6

Schlieffen Plan

Answer 6

Germany’s military plan to rapidly defeat France and then move east to defeat Russia. Many thought that this plan would succeed because Russia would lag in mobilizing for the war due to the fact that they weren’t industrialized.

Question 7

Trench Warfare

Answer 7

Opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

Question 8

Eastern Front

Answer 8

Region along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans, Austrians, and Turks.

Question 9

Western Front

Answer 9

Also known as the “terrain of death”.

The region of northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.

Germany suffered defeat at the Battle of the Marne, and war in the west settles into a stalemate characterized by war in the trenches.

Question 10

Balkans

Answer 10

The region of southern Europe now occupied by Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the European part of Turkey, and the former republics of Yugoslavia.

Question 11

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 11

The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. He was murdered while visiting the capital of Bosnia. His assassination by Gavrilo Princip is what launched WWI.

Question 12

Stalemate

Answer 12

Deadlock

Question 13

“No Man’s Land”

Answer 13

Land between the front lines or trenches of opposing sides during battle.

Question 14

War of Attrition

Answer 14

Military strategy in which one tries to win a war by wearing down the enemy to the point of collapse through continuous losses in soldiers and resources.

Question 15

Casualties

Answer 15

Anyone killed, injured, captured, or considered missing in action.

Question 16

Alsace-Lorraine

Answer 16

Land that France lost to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War (1870).

Question 17

Mobilization

Answer 17

The act of assembling and making both troops and supplies ready for war.

Question 18

Serbia

Answer 18

Gavrilo Princip was Serbian, which is why Austria-Hungary used his act of murder on Ferdinand as reason for demands. The Serbians didn’t want to agree to all the demands which was when Austria-Hungary declared war on them. Russia, allied with Serbia, decided to help Serbians by mobilizing troops. It was then that countries chose sides in the First World War.

Question 19

Modern Weapons

Answer 19

Poison Gas: wind carried it for miles, caused thousands of casualties instantly / easier way to kill

Machine Guns: team of 3 or more soldiers could mow down scores of advancing infantry with ease / killed faster allowing for more death

Planes: used for recon, bombing, and artillery spotting / over time the machinery improved

Tanks: swept through barbed wire and trenches / over time the machinery improved

Submarines: led to unrestricted attacks on civilian ships /

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