WW1 Study GUIDE!!!!

Question 1

Western Front (Germany’s Schlieffen Plan)

Answer 1

• Invade through Belgium to take Paris & surround French Army while Russia slowly mobilizes
• Plan works until Germans are stopped at first Battle of Marne
• trench warfare begins

Question 2

Trench Warfare

Answer 2

Machine guns cause massive casualties
Results:
- trenches & barbed wire
- “ No man’s land”
- Stalemate!

Question 3

what happened to the Western Front Stalemate ???

Answer 3

(Battle of Verdun 1916)
10 months
- French casualties: 371,000
- German Casualties: 337,000
- About 5 miles change in lines
( Battle of the Somme 1916):
- 4.5 months
- British casualties: 420,000
- French casualties : 204,000
- German casualties: 465,000
- About 5 miles change in lines

Question 4

What did the Eastern Front do ???

Answer 4

• Russia invades eastern Germany
• Russians quit war in 1917
  Near economic collapse
  Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution

Question 5

New Weapons (to End Stalemate?)

Answer 5

-Poison gas
- Submarines (German U-Boats)
- Tanks

Question 6

Air Warfare

Answer 6

• Airplanes
• Zeppelin bombers

Question 7

Blockades

Answer 7

• German U-boat blockade uses attack without warning or saving survivors
• U.S. claims neutral’s right to trade with either side