WW1

Question 1

Stalemate

Answer 1

Neither has advantage

Question 2

Total war

Answer 2

Countries that devote all their resources to the war effort

Question 3

Western front

Answer 3

Deadlock region in northern France

Question 4

Eastern front

Answer 4

German and Russian border

Question 5

New warfare advances

Answer 5

• tanks
• airplanes
• flamethrower
• mustard gas
• chlorine gas
• u-boats (submarines)

Question 6

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Answer 6

Can sink without any warning any ship in the waters by Britain. Germany sunk a US ship and restricted them but after a while, but decided US wasn’t as much a threat as Britain, so they created a block around Britain with subs

Question 7

Trench warfare

Answer 7

Soldiers fought in trenches protected from enemy fire and never gained much land.
“No mans land”: space between trenches

Question 8

What is the first US ship sunk in 1915?

Answer 8

Lusitania

Question 9

Zimmerman telegram

Answer 9

A telegram from Germany to help them reconquer lands they lost from America if they help Germany fight in WW1

Question 10

What made US join the war?

Answer 10

• Zimmerman telegram

- unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 11

Second Battle of the Marne

Answer 11

Germany fights France all the way to almost Paris But never takes France because the Americans come at the battle of the Marne. This makes the Germans retreat because they were fresh, clean, healthy and this made them fear a continuous war.

Question 12

Russian Revolution

Answer 12

Because 5.5 million Russians die under Tsar Nicholas 2 & he wants to continue to fight, Russia fights a civil war and is overtaken by VI Lenin. Lenin creates a treaty with Germany, but loses land.

Question 13

Nicholas 2

Answer 13

Czar of Russia during WW1 but is kicked out

Question 14

Rasputin

Answer 14

Super Creepy wizard, magician, healer who helps make decisions for Russia by influencing their czarina.

Question 15

Communist party

Answer 15

In 1917, Russia becomes communist under Vladimir Lenin after the revolution

Question 16

What was the name of the Russian communist party ?

Answer 16

Bolsheviks

Question 17

Who was the Russian communist leader ?

Answer 17

Vladimir Lenin

Question 18

Rationing

Answer 18

Because of war, people could only buy small amounts of those items needed in the war effort

Question 19

Propaganda

Answer 19

One sided information designed to persuade, to keep up morale and support for the war

Question 20

Paris peace conference

Answer 20

On January 18, 1919 (at the palace of Versailles) the big four met: Woodrow Wilson of the United States, Georges Clemenceau of France, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, and Vittorio Orlando of Italy & discussed Germany’s punishment

Question 21

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 21

America’s president during WW1

Question 22

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 22

A treaty for WW1 between the allies and Germany signed on June 28, 1919

Question 23

14 points

Answer 23

A peace proposal created by Woodrow Wilson and made by the US as a plan for just & lasting peace

Question 24

League of Nations

Answer 24

Wilson’s fourteenth point, signed at the treaty of Versailles, a international association to keep peace between nations

Question 25

War guilt clause

Answer 25

Article 231, saying the war was Germany’s fault and they need to pay reparations(money to all the other countries)