Europe Plunges Into War

Question 1

Europe’s two rival camps

Answer 1

The Triple Entre- Great Britian, France, and Russia
Triple Alliance- Germany, Hungary Austria, Italy

Question 2

_______’s declarence of war against ______ set of a chain reaction within the alliance system

Answer 2

1. Austria Hungary
2. Syrbia

Question 3

What did Russia do in response to Serbia’s declaration of war?

Answer 3

Progressed it’s army towards the Russian-Austrian border

Question 4

Why did Russia station troops along the border of Russian German border

Answer 4

They expected Germany to join Austria

Question 5

Why did Germany declare war on Russia?

Answer 5

They were threatened by the Russians stationed at their border

Question 6

What was Russia’s response to Germany declaring war on them?

Answer 6

They turned to their French ally

Question 7

Describe how the web of alliances pulled in all the countries.

Answer 7

Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Austria’s ally, Russia mobilized at Germany’s border because they assumed they would join Austria. Austria felt threatened and declared war on Russia. Russia looked to France for help, so Germany declared war of France too.

Question 8

What was the German response to the Russians seeking help from France

Answer 8

Germany declared war on France too

Question 9

Central Powers

Answer 9

Germany and Austria Hungary (eventually joined by Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire)

Question 10

Why are the central powers called the central powers

Answer 10

They’re location in the heart of Europe

Question 11

Allied Powers/the Allies

Answer 11

Great Britian, France and Russia (joined by Japan and Italy)

Question 12

What is Italy’s deal with alliances in WW1

Answer 12

Originally a member of the Triple Alliance, but joined the other side after they blamed their former partners for starting the war

Question 13

When did soldiers begin marching off to war?

Answer 13

The summer of 1914

Question 14

“The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”

Answer 14

Edward Grey

Question 15

Western Front

Answer 15

Long bloody stalemate along the battlefields along northern France

Question 16

Schlieffen Plan

Answer 16

Attacking and defeating France in the west, and then rushing east to defeat Russia

Question 17

Who created the Schlieffen Plan

Answer 17

General Alfred Von Schlieffen

Question 18

Why did feel confident about the Schlieffen Plan

Answer 18

Because they felt that Russia didn’t have a developed railroad system thus making them slower to supply its front lines

Question 19

What was vital to the Schlieffen Plan

Answer 19

speed

Question 20

Did the Schlieffen Plan work?

Answer 20

The Germans had swept into France and reached the outskirts of Paris, but then the allies regrouped and attacked Germany so Germany retreated

Question 21

The battle of Marne

Answer 21

When the Germans were planning to attack Russia so the allies attacked them on the Marne river.

Question 22

What were German scientists working on durring the war?

Answer 22

Finding replacements for key resources.

Question 23

Which side developed chemical weapons first?

Answer 23

Germany

Question 24

When and why did the war “take to the skies”

Answer 24

The 1915 invention of planes

Question 25

The invention of what saved many soldiers?

Answer 25

mobile x rays

Question 26

Space in between trenches

Answer 26

No mans land

Question 27

What did the Western Front become?

Answer 27

a “terrain of death”

Question 28

When did the slaughter reach a peak?

Answer 28

1916

Question 29

What equitment did soldiers use to protect themselves from poisnoness gass?

Answer 29

Gas masks

Question 30

Improved/invented weapons

Answer 30

• Poisness gas
• Machine guns
• Tanks
• Submarines

Question 31

At the beginning of the war where did Russia attack

Answer 31

in both Austria and Germany

Question 32

Austria against Russia

Answer 32

Russia started out stronger and pushed into Austria but eventually Austria managed to push them out.

Question 33

Why was Russia constantly short on supplies?

Answer 33

The were less industrialized

Question 34

What deadly enviornmental factor killed many soldiers at the eastern front?

Answer 34

Cold winters

Question 35

Why couldn’t Russia’s ally’s ship them supplies at the Eastern front easily

Answer 35

Because they would have to ship them over a sea controlled by the enemy

Question 36

Only advantage of the Russian army

Answer 36

it’s size

Question 37

Who stopped Germany from launching a full fighting force at the west

Answer 37

Russia

Question 38

What invention progressed the war significantly?

Answer 38

The planes

Question 39

Key to military victory

Answer 39

planes