WW1 Flashcards

1
Q

What does Main stand for?

A

M-Militarism A-Alliances I-Imperialism N-Nationalism

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2
Q

In the early 1870s. Europe had a enormous tension between which nations?

A

Franco-German Balkan Region

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3
Q

The assassination of. Austro-Hungary what did it lead to

A

It leads to WW1

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4
Q

Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by

A

Gavrilo Princip

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5
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What happened to franz Ferdinand’s wife?

A

She got assassinated to

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6
Q

Because of the assassination……?

A

Austria-Hungary declared war with Serbia

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7
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• Because of their previously agreed alliance

A

Russia joined the war to help their ally Serbia

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8
Q

The triple alliance known as?

A

The central powers

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9
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The triple entente known as

A

The allied Powers

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10
Q

The fire steps were

A

Wooden planks built into the wall of trench that allowed soldiers to see over sandbags

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11
Q

Duckboards were?

A

Large Wooden planks laid over areas where water gathered

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12
Q

Germans expected war to be like

A

Attrition or stalemate

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13
Q

All trenches had

A

Lice rats dead bodies raw sewage

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14
Q

All Trenches were the

A

Downfall of all the trenches

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15
Q

The WW1 Western front ran to

A

English Channel to Switzerland

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16
Q

The WW1 Eastern front was the barrier between

A

Russia and German armys

17
Q

WW1 weapons had the ability to

A

Cause great damage

18
Q

WW1 was the first time chemical gas was used in a

A

Active war

19
Q

The United States entered war because

A

Blockades were impacting American way of life/ Germans sunk the Lusitania

20
Q

Us troops were commanded by

A

John J. Pershing

21
Q

Females across the world worked in factories while men fought in

A

WW1

22
Q

WW1 ended on

A

11:00am on November 11 1918

23
Q

Global leaders met at Versailles in France to see the

A

Details of the war treaty

24
Q

Us president woodrow Wilson suggested the?

A

Fourteen point plan

25
Q

Germany was required to take?

A

Full blame for the war

26
Q

Germany lost land to other countries and had to

A

Pay reparations to fix the damage that the war has caused

27
Q

Germany was forbidden to have

A

Tanks or an active airforce

28
Q

The League of Nations was created to keep

A

Global. Peace

29
Q

The international assembly that would work to settle international disagreements created by

A

Woodrow Wilson

30
Q

Reparations are

A

Payments for war debt or war guilt

31
Q

German trenches were much more sophisticated with

A

Electricity toilets and beds

32
Q

The allied powers were on one side and the central powers were

A

On the other

33
Q

Trench warfare is

A

A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing eachother

34
Q

As a result the death count grew extremely high and it caused

A

The need for trench warfare

35
Q

Reparation meaning

A

Payments for war debt or war guilt

36
Q

Armistice day

A

Veterans Day

37
Q

Armistice meaning

A

Truce or agreement to end a dispute