Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Worldwide pandemic that had weakened the armies and would kill tens of millions of young adults through 1920. | Spanish Flu | 86%
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Recently defeated German ally led by The Three Pashas. The central remnants of this empire would soon be led by another man named Pasha, a.k.a. Atatürk. | The Ottoman Empire | 86%
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Document that formalized Germany's surrender, signed 5 years to the day after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Treaty Of __________ | Versailles | 86%
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President of The United States | Woodrow Wilson | 86%
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Time the Armistice went into effect | 11:00 AM | 71%
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Recently defeated German ally on the Black Sea | Bulgaria | 71%
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Collective name for Germany and her allies, all of whom except Germany, had already surrendered | Central Powers | 71%
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German Emperor who had ended his 30-year reign by announcing his abdication 2 days prior, having fled to The Netherlands. | Kaiser Wilhelm II | 71%
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German ports in which sailors had mutinied in the days before the armistice | Kiel | 71%
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Recently defeated German ally headed by the Habsburg Dynasty | The Austro-Hungarian Empire | 71%
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Collective name of the allies fighting Germany | The Entente | 71%
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German city where the constituent assembly established a new government the same day the Emperor abdicated. Hitler derisively named this interwar government after the city, the ______ Republic. | Weimar | 71%
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Prime minister of The United Kingdom | David Lloyd George | 57%
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Collective name for the long standing, heavily entrenched defensive positions to which the Germans had recently returned, named for the supreme military commander of Germany and her allies: The __________ Line | Hindenburg (OR Siegfried Line) | 57%
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...which would lead to this precursor of The United Nations | The League Of Nations | 57%
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Percent of Germany held by the enemy when it surrendered | 0% | 43%
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General in charge of United States forces | John J. "Blackjack" Pershing | 43%
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Nickname for squads of German soldiers who adapted precursor Blitzkrieg tactics near the end of the war to finally break trench warfare and push toward Paris. | Stormtroopers | 43%
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King of Belgium | Albert I | 29%
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Nearby city traditionally cited as the signing location | Compiègne | 29%
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General who had been head of the German armies until just before the armistice. | Erich Ludendorff | 29%
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U.S. President's set of proposed conditions for permanent peace | Fourteen Points | 29%
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Prime minister of France | Georges Clemenceau | 29%
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German ports in which sailors had mutinied in the days before the armistice | Wilhelmshaven | 29%
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Field marshal in charge of United Kingdom forces | Douglas Haig | 14%
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French field marshal who was the Western allies' supreme commander and primary author of the terms of surrender | Ferdinand Foch | 14%
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German paramilitary units that revolted against the government and would be a continuing source of strife for several years. | Freikorps | 14%
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American with a German last name and recently busted from sergeant down to private, who foolishly charged German machine gunners less than 1 minute before peace went into effect | Henry Gunther | 14%
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Chancellor of the German Empire | Maximilian von Baden | 14%
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President of France | Raymond Poincaré | 14%
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Treaty which had ended hostilities between Germany and the new Soviet government of Russia | Treaty Of Brest-Litovsk | 14%
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