World War I Flashcards by B - | Brainscape

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Major French/German battle - 1916

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Battle of Verdun

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His assassination started WW I

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Archduke Francis Ferdinand

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City where Francis Ferdinand was assassinated

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Sarajevo

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Germany - Austria-Hungary alliance in WW I

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Central powers

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Britain - France and Russian Alliance in WW I

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Triple Entente

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General of U.S. armies - 1918

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Gen. John “Blackjack” Pershing

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French leader in WW I

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Georges Clemnceau

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German leader in WW I

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Kaiser Wilhem II

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German flying ace in WW I

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Baron Manfred von Richtofen (The Red Baron - 80 kills)

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Maker of Richtofen’s airplane type in WW I

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Fokker

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American flying ace in WW I

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Eddie Rickenbacker

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Battle that stopped German advance - 1914

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First Battle of the Marne

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World War I’s original name before WW II

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The Great War

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British-German naval battle for the North Sea - 1916

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Battle of Jutland

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Treaty ending First World War

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Treaty of Versailles

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Start of Allied offensive - 1918

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Second Battle of the Marne

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French Marshall at the Battle of the Marne

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Marshall Ferdinand Foch

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Hero of the Battle of Agonne in WW I

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Alvin York

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Female spy for Germany in France in WW I

A

Mata Hari

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Mata Hari’s native country

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The Netherlands

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Ill-fated Turkish landing site during WW I

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Gallipoli

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Woodrow Wilson’s post-war policy

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Fourteen Points

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Belgian cemetary

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Flanders Field

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German 43-ton Howitzer during WW I

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“Big Bertha”

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British nurse executed by the Germans

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Dame Edith Cavell

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Salvation Army Worker during WW I

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Evangeline Booth

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British passinger linger sank - May - 1915

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Lusitania