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World War 1 - Part 1 Flashcards

1
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What are the causes of World War 1?

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  1. Nationalism
  2. Imperialism
  3. Technology/Weapons
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How did WW1 start?

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  1. Serbia wants to obtain land lost to Albania back from Albania
    A. Serbian ultra-nationalist group BLACK HAND plans to assasinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in Sarajevo, Servia
    B. BLACK HAND fails
    C.Nationalist Gavrilo Princip kills Ferdinand and his wife
  2. Austria- Hungary demands from Serbia
    A. Reparations - monetary payments for damages to an item, person, mind
    B. Place Austrian-Hungary official in Serbia to investigate the assasination
    C. Serbia refuses —>Austria-Hungary invades—>Russia (ally of Serbia) declares war on Austria-Hungary
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Which countries were in the triple entente?

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  1. Great Britain
  2. France
  3. Russia
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Which countries were in the triple alliance?

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  1. Germany
  2. Italy
  3. Austria-Hungary
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Which countries were the allied powers?

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  1. Great Britain
  2. France
  3. Italy (changed sides)
  4. Russia
  5. Romania
  6. Serbia
  7. Japan
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Which countries were the Central Powers?

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  1. Germany
  2. Austria-Hungary
  3. Ottoman Empire
  4. Bulgaria
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What was the Schieffen plan?

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  1. Created by Alfred Von Scheiffen
  2. Plan in order to prevent a 2 front war
    A. Germany will attack France by going through Belgium to bypass French defenses to surround Paris and demand France to surrender
    B. Germany will then move its troops by train to the eastern side of the country and fight Russia
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Why does Great Britain join WW1?

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Belgium wanted to remain neutral and was protected by Great Britain.
Germany breaks its neutrality by attacking France through Belgium.
Great Britain joins the war.

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What happens at the first Battle of the Marne?

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Germany was almost successful in defeating France, but fails to take Paris.
France holds on to Paris.

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Why did Germany fail to defeat France in the Battle of Marne?

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  1. German army was spread out
  2. No communication between army groups
  3. Middle of the attack was vulnerable
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What is trench warefare?

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  1. Old style of fighting
  2. Defensive lines dug into the ground with bunkers
  3. Slow fighting, lots of death with little land to gain
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What is “No Man’s Land”?

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The stretch of land between the trenches of opposing sides

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What was built at the front of a trench system?

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Barbed wire fencing

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How many trenches were there in a typical trench system and what were they called?

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Three

  1. Front trench
  2. Support trench
  3. Reserve trench
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What was located at the back of the trench system?

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Long range artillery (at about 10 km behind the front line)

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Where were machine guns placed in the trench system?

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In concrete block houses near the support trench.

17
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What was the purpose of airplanes in trench warefare?

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To warn of the build up pf enemy troop before an attack

18
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What was the purpose of dugouts in the trench system?

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Frontline dugouts provide some protection, but not against a direct hit from an artillery shell.
Deeper (15m) dugouts (near the support trench) were well constructed and did provide protection from artillery shells

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What is trench foot?

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Foot injury caused by feet being wet for too long.

20
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What is “chatting”?

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Groups of men sitting around talking while killing lice with thier fingernails or candles

21
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Why was gas so scary?

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It reacts with water in airways to create acid resulting in swelling and blocked airways leading to suffocation
It also reacts with water in the eyes and causes blondness

22
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What new weapons were used during WW1?

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  1. Machine guns
  2. Gas
  3. Artillery
  4. Tanks
  5. Planes
  6. U-boats
  7. Dreadnoughts
23
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What was the deadliest weapon?

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Machine guns

24
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What was the purpose of artillery?

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  1. Create holes in trenches
  2. Destroy barb wire
  3. Kill soldiers
25
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What was Big Bertha?

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The largest and most powerful artillery weapon used during WW 1.

26
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What was the purpose of tanks?

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To protect soldiers across the battlefield

27
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What are the drawbacks of using tanks?

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They are slow, loud and hard to breathe in

28
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What were planes used for in WW1?

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  1. As scouts/reconnaissance

2. Dogfighting between planes, bombing trenches and ships

29
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Who was the best known fighter pilot of WW1?

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The Red Baron

30
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What are U-boats?

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German submarines which were used to destroy warships and transport ships.
Scary, ungentlemanly type of warfare.

31
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What were dreadnoughts?

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Large battleships with heavy guns

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