Statistics for The First World War

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  • The average score is 11 of 18

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HintAnswer% Correct
The city in which the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.Sarajevo
90%
The German Kaiser who issued a "blank cheque" promise to Austria-Hungary in 1914.Wilhelm II
84%
Britain entered the war after Germany violated the neutrality of what nation?Belgium
82%
The area between the trenches on the western front became known by the three word phrase.No Man's Land
81%
The United States entered the war in 1917 after it was made aware of the contents of the Zimmermann Telegram in which Germany attempted to bring what nations into the war on Germany's side?Mexico
73%
What nation ceded large tracts of land to Germany in 1918 by the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?Russia
72%
This Anglo-French offensive from July to November 1916 created over 1,000,000 casualites on both sides.Somme
72%
In 1915 this nation joined the war on the Allied side after receiving promises of territorial gain specified in the Treaty of London.Italy
68%
The assassin, Gavrilo Princip was an operative for a nationalist group known as the________ ______Black Hand
63%
In 1915 French, British, Australian and New Zealand forces attempted to gain a toe-hold in the Dardanelles at the Battle of ___________.Gallipoli
56%
Prior to the outbreak of the war France, Britain and Russia had formed an alliance known as the__________ __________Triple Entente
56%
The armistice bringing an end to the war against Germany was signed in a railway carriage on what month and date in 1918November 11
55%
In 1917 Germany adopted a policy in the Atlantic of "unrestricted _______________ warfare".submarine
55%
Germany's war plan in 1914 calling for a rapid victory in the west before aiming its forces at Russia was known as the ____________________ PlanSchlieffen
48%
This 1916 confrontation was the largest naval battle of the First World War.Jutland
46%
Germany's initial advance westward to defeat France was stopped in September 1914 at a battle named after this river.Marne
44%
In April 1917 troops from what nation seized the strategic Vimy Ridge from German control.Canada
41%
The name of the first poison gas used by the Germans in an attempt to break the trench stalemate.chlorine
38%

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