WW1

Question 1

Second unrestricted submarine warfare campaign

Answer 1

1916

Question 2

Why did Germany stop the first unrestricted submarine warfare campaign?

Answer 2

Because in May 1915 the passenger liner Lusitania was sunk, killing 128 passengers and created tension between Germany and the US

Question 3

First German unrestricted submarine warfare

Answer 3

February 1915

Question 4

Balance of power

Answer 4

International situation in which the major powers or alliances have roughly equal power. This should lead to preventing attack.

Question 5

Germany asks for a ceasefire to the USA

Answer 5

4th October 1918

Question 6

Kiel naval base mutiny

Answer 6

October 1918
Soldiers mutinied after being ordered to go to sea to try to defend Britain
Took over the town of Kiel
Mutiny not repressed by Kaiser
Provoked other strikes and demonstartions, joined by war-weary soldiers

Question 7

Why Germans believed Germany did not lose the war in 1918

Answer 7

• major press campaigns about the successes of the March 1918 Spring Offensive
• Germany had not actually been invaded by the enemy
• successful/ victorious treaty with Russia
• it was able to defend its Western borders
• did not know of Ludendorff’s report to the government

Question 8

Gallipoli campaign

Answer 8

April 1915 to January 1916