Important Information

Question 1

Poison gas

Answer 1

Devastating. Used in trench warfare and dropped by zeppelins and planes

Question 2

Zeppelins

Answer 2

Used by Germany to observe enemies and to bomb British civilians. Hot air balloon.

Question 3

Airplanes

Answer 3

First time used in war to observe enemies, and later mounted with machine guns to shoot at enemies in in sky fights called “dog fights”

Question 4

Tanks

Answer 4

First used by the British to roll over the barbed wire in no mans land. Lot of men had to use not very effective

Question 5

Submarines

Answer 5

Used by Germans to fire torpedoes at ships like the Lusitania which led to the us going into war.

Question 6

Allied powers

Answer 6

Barf in a boot
Britain
America
Russia
France
Italy

Question 7

Central powers

Answer 7

Mr. Otto likes to gab
Ottoman Empire
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria

Question 8

The schlieffen plan

Answer 8

A German plan by Alfred Von schlieffen to avoid two front war. Germany would invade France by going through Belgium. After, they would take French railroad back to Germany and finish off slow moving Russia.

Question 9

Machine guns

Answer 9

Started as hard to use became easier and with more ammo

Question 9

The schlieffen plans failure?

Answer 9

Germany asked Belgium permission to go through land, but when Belgium refused Germany did it anyway and through the Westminster treaty Britain got involved. They stayed in Belgium for more time than planned and bring most of army. France attacks Germany using French railroad and Russia mobilized faster than expected. Creates a stalemate ( no side can win)

Question 10

What ships did Germany sink?

Answer 10

On March 24, 1916 German submarines torpedoed a French liner (Sussex)
On May 7, 1915 German submarines torpedoed a British liner (Lusitania)

Question 11

Who was the president of the us during WW1?

Answer 11

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Question 12

Period of time of war, and it’s name change

Answer 12

War started July 28 1914 and ended at 11:00 AM on the 11th of November 1918.
The war used to be “The Great War” but now is World war 1

Question 13

Zimmerman telegraph?

Answer 13

Germany doesn’t want us to join the war so they sent Mexico a telegraph talking about having a treaty and how they will get their land back. Also how Mexico should go to Japan and ask for an alliance with them as well. British decode it but do not show Americans until February 1917 do us would join the war.

Question 14

Why did the us enter the war?

Answer 14

The us entered the war because of the uprising of the people on the unites started telling Woodrow Wilson to go to war. This was cause by two liners being sunk by Germans submarines and the Zimmerman telegraph sent by Germany. The us finally entered the war to protect the democracy that they thought was being threatened.

Question 15

What is trench warfare?

Answer 15

Trench warfare was a war tactic used during WW1. Each side would dig trenches around their borders and the sides would take turns bombarding and running across no mans land. Trenches were a horrible environment filled with plagues, rats, diseases, damp environments, lice, and sometimes no food.

Question 16

What is no mans land

Answer 16

No mans land is the area between two enemy trenches that sides take turns running across.

Question 17

Who got assassinated at the beginning of the war?

Answer 17

Archduke Franz Verdinand was assassinated in a visit to Serbia by Gavrillo Princip which had been aided by a rebel organization called the black hand group. This happened on the 28th of June 1914

Question 18

What was the aftermath of the archduke a death?

Answer 18

Austria Hungary sent a very tough ultimatum to Serbian officials, if they did not agree they would declare war. Guided by Germans yellow journalism the Austrian Hungarian ambassador Gieslingen leaves before Serbia could send back the ultimatum. When Serbia sends back ultimatum they agree to all but one term, but no one gets it. Therefore, Austria Hungary declares war.

Question 19

The weapons of WW1

Answer 19

Trench warfare started. Also, machine guns that became easier to use with more ammo, poison gas, zeppelins, airplanes, tanks, submarines

Question 20

Isolationism and Germany?

Answer 20

Germany went through a period of isolationism because it had been seperatly from the affairs and interests of the rest of the world because it was blamed for WW1. Also it now had to complete a lot of changes set for it.

Question 21

How did isolationism plant the seeds for WW2?

Answer 21

Isolationism planted the seeds for WW2 because the German children were poisoned with hatred, nationalism, and isolationism that they received from the outside world. Also, German soldiers that came back from war saw nation crumbling and had to rebuild it into a great nation (nationalism). Which led to them becoming great by war.