WW1 part 1

Question 1

What is conscription

Answer 1

Draft

Question 2

What Are the FOUR main causes of WW1

Answer 2

Nationalism
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism

Question 3

What countries composed of the central powers?

Answer 3

Ottoman Empire
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Bulgaria

Question 4

What countries composed of the triple entente

Answer 4

Russia
France
Great Britain
(Later US)

Question 5

Name five major events that led up to WW1

Answer 5

1: Prussia and German states are unified into the country of “Germany” in 1871
2: alliances- triple entente and central powers
3: Russo-Japanese war
4: tsar Nicolar II becomes leader of Russia
5: Franco- Prussian war

Question 6

Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated on what date?

Answer 6

June 28,1914

Question 7

Where was the archduke assassinated

Answer 7

Sarajevo, Bosnia

Question 8

Which individual is responsible for the assassination? What political group?

Answer 8

Black hand

Gavrilo princip

Question 9

What two countries were the first at war

Answer 9

Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia

Question 10

Why did the United States not initially get involved

Answer 10

Not picking sides in q conflict

Large number of German immigrants

Question 11

What did the Schlieffan plan involve

Answer 11

Germany planned to invade France through neutral Belgium

Assumed it only had 6 weeks to draft France

Question 12

What were the FIVE major new technologies of WW1

Answer 12

Poisonous gas
Tanks 
Airplanes
Machine Guns 
New hand grenades

Question 13

What technology will inflict the majority of casualties

Answer 13

Anti aircraft artillery

Question 14

What country invent The tank

Answer 14

British in 1915

Question 15

Who invented the machine gun

Answer 15

Hinam maxim

Question 16

What invention made it possible for fighter planes to fire directly forward

Answer 16

Interrupter gear

Question 17

What country introduced poisonous gas in 1915

Answer 17

Germans

Question 18

Name one kind of poisonous gas

Answer 18

Mustard gas

Question 19

What battle saw the beginning g of the trench stalemate

Answer 19

The western front became a stalemate between French and German troops

Question 20

What was the land in between each trench called

Answer 20

No mans land

Question 21

What is the date of the start of WW1

Answer 21

July 28,1914

Question 22

What two battles on the eastern front saw the end of the Russian threat

Answer 22

Tannenburg and masurian lake

Question 23

Describe the “race to the sea”

Answer 23

After reaching a stalemate at the marnes river, Germans and French will have a race to the sea trying to get the northern flank

Question 24

Why was the German u-boat so successful

Answer 24

Prove to be the most overall effect weapon of WWI at sea

Question 25

What will Germany enact in 1915 that will serve rely cripple allied trade

Answer 25

U-boat; unrestricted submarine warfare

Question 26

When was the famous “Christmas truce”

Answer 26

Christmas Eve 1914

Question 27

Why was the Gallipoli campaign such a failure

Answer 27

British would never see much advancement

Question 28

What was the name of the Australian military unit that invaded the Ottoman Empire

Answer 28

Anzac

Australian and New Zealand army corps

Question 29

Who planned the failed Gallipoli campaign

Answer 29

First lord of British admiralty

Question 30

What was the name of the German plan against the French in the beginning of 1916

Answer 30

Weissbluten -“bleed to death”

Question 31

What was the goal of the battle of verdun

Answer 31

Both sides wanted to secure a victory in 1916

Question 32

What British offensive began as a distraction from verdun

Answer 32

Battle of somme

Question 33

Who led the ill fated battle of Somme

Answer 33

British colonel Douglas haig

Question 34

Summarize trench warfare

Answer 34

Battle field covered with new technology

Area between the trenches covered with barbed wire and mines

Question 35

What was the early role of aircrafts in WWI

Answer 35

Used for surveillance