World War One dates

Question 1

Start of World War One

Answer 1

28 July 1914

Question 2

Burgfrieden (party truce) agreed upon

Answer 2

August 1914

Question 3

Schlieffan plan success is halted outside Paris

Answer 3

Late 1914

Question 4

Sinking of the Lusitania by the Germans

Answer 4

7 May 1915

Question 5

Bureaucracy slaughter 9 million pigs in an attempt to resolve the grain shortages (Imperial grain corporation)

Answer 5

1915

Question 6

Battle of Verdun (War of attrition fought under Falkenhayn’s direction)

Answer 6

1916

Question 7

Hindenburg appointed head of the OHL. Ludendorff is made Chief of Staff. De Facto military dictatorship formed.

Answer 7

August 1916

Question 8

Food rations drop to their lowest throughout the war (14.6 million tonnes of grain in this year, vs 27.1 million in 1914)

Answer 8

1917

Question 9

Formation of the USPD

Answer 9

1917

Question 10

Demonstrations for more food and an end to the war occur in Berlin

Answer 10

April 1917

Question 11

The working class becomes angry at the growing black market only suitable for the middle and upper class (the black market was responsible for 20-35% of food sales)

Answer 11

Approx 1917

Question 12

1/3 of the German workforce consisted of women

Answer 12

1918

Question 13

USPD led general strikes (Over 1 million workers strike in some areas)

Answer 13

January 1918

Question 14

Kiel mutiny

Answer 14

2 November 1918

Question 15

The Kaiser abdicates

Answer 15

9 November 1918

Question 16

Armistice is signed (end of the war)

Answer 16

11 November 1918