WW1

Question 1

What are the 4 M.A.I.N. causes of WW1?

Answer 1

militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism

Question 2

militarism

Answer 2

stockpile military arms & build strongest military

Question 3

alliances

Answer 3

agreement to not go against each other/help each other during war

Question 4

nationalism

Answer 4

pride in one’s own country/desire for independence

Question 5

alliances up to 1914

Answer 5

triple entente (good guys) vs. triple alliance

Question 6

alliances during the war

Answer 6

allied powers (good guys) vs. central power

Question 7

new weapons of war

Answer 7

maxim machine guns, poisonous gas, land mines, trucks, cars, tanks, flame throwers, barbed wires, submarine/u-boat

Question 8

OG alliances

Answer 8

Britain, France, Russia

Question 9

Triple Alliance

Answer 9

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

Question 10

central powers (whole war)

Answer 10

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

Question 11

Western Front (schlieffen plan)

Answer 11

Germany invades France through Belgium

Question 12

Western Front: 1st Battle of Marne

Answer 12

• first major war of WW1
• September 1914
• Germany bombs France for 4 days
• Schlieffen plan abandoned - trench warfare began

Question 13

Western Front: 1st Battle of Somme

Answer 13

• bloodiest battle of WW1
• British introduces tanks
• battle didn’t change front line trenches

Question 14

Western Front: 2nd Battle of Ypres, Belgium

Answer 14

• chlorine gas first used

- April 1915

Question 15

Eastern Front: Battle of Tannenburg

Answer 15

• September 1914
• over 120,000 Russian’s taken prison or dead
• starts sad pattern for Russia’s military