World War I Flashcards
The Triple Alliance, which was created by Otto von Bismarck in 1882 and consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, evolved into World War I’s Central Powers (or Quadruple Alliance). As Italy remained neutral at the war’s onset, the Central Powers consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and two new allies. Name either one.
Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
Site of an arduous WWI campaign, this town on the Dardanelles gets its name from the Greek for “beautiful city.”
Gallipoli
This September 1914 battle ended with an Allied victory over the Germans. It marked, however, a long period of trench warfare along the war’s western front. The battle is named after the French river near which it took place.
First Battle of the Marne
This 1916 North Sea battle was the largest naval battle to take place during WWI. It ultimately resulted in British control of shipping lanes and was a foundation for the blockade that would contribute to German defeat in 1918. It is named after the peninsula that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany.
Battle of Jutland
Not to be confused with the Ardennes, this French forest was the site of the biggest WWI battle fought by the American Expeditionary Forces.
Argonne
What famous woman became director of the Red Cross’s new radiology service in Paris during World War I?
Marie Curie
Anzac Cove (Anzak Koyu) is the current name of the site where Allied forces landed, in 1915, in a campaign against the Turks on what peninsula?
Gallipoli
The name of what river has been redacted from this map of approximately 30 World War I battlefields?
Somme
What vesicant, with the chemical formula C4H8Cl2S, was once also known as Yperite, after the World War I battle in which it was first deployed? Though banned by the 1925 Geneva Protocol, it was later heavily used by Italy during its invasion of Ethiopia.
Mustard Gas
Who is this person?
(Hint: He played an important role during one of the World Wars)
T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)
What holiday, a major Day of Remembrance in two countries, is celebrated annually on April 25, the anniversary of the Gallipoli landings?
Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, their first engagement in the First World War (1914–1918).
Which member of the so-called Big Four of 1919 was nicknamed “the Welsh Wizard”?
The “Big Four” were the Allied leaders who negotiated the post-World War I peace in Paris. The “Welsh Wizard” was David Lloyd George, still the only Welshman ever to serve as British prime minister.
While the first four days of August 1914 saw declarations of war among Germany and Russia, France, Belgium, and Great Britain, the first declaration of war in World War I, on July 28, involved two other countries. Identify those two combatants.
Austria-Hungary, Serbia
The treaty ending World War I was signed in a room named for its seventeen large what?
The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the palace’s famous Hall of Mirrors.
