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| Who was the assassin of Franz Ferdinand, and which secret society sponsored this assassin? | Gavrilo Princip, sponsored by the Black Hand |
| What country and city was Franz Ferdinand visiting on the day of his death, and on which day did this fall? | Bosnia Herzegovina, Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 |
| Who was the Prime Minister of Britain by the war's end, and to which party did he belong?? | David Lloyd George, Liberal Party |
| What was the name of the strategic plan attemped by Germany to win the war early, and through which neutral country would this plan require the passage of German troops? | The Schlieffen Plan, Belgium |
| What battle did the ANZAC forces engage in, and against whom, and where was it located? In what year did this battle mostly take place? | Gallipoli, against the Ottoman Empire, in the Dardanelles, from April 1915 to Jan. 1916 |
| What special forces were developed by the German army in order to break the stalemate by penetrating deep into No Man's Land? | the stormtroopers |
| Who represented the USA at the Paris Peace Conference, and what was his idea for a system of collective security? | President Woodrow Wilson, the League of Nations |
| Regarding the causes of WWI, what is M.A.N.I.A.? | Militarism, arms race, nationalism, imperialism, the alliance system: these were all long term conditions that made WWI possible. |
| Who ferried this Bolshevik leader back to Russia from Switzerland; what did this leader promise Russians? | Vladmir Lenin was allowed passage to Russia by Germany in 1917, and to his Russians he promised "Peace, Land, and Bread" |
| In the late 19th century some German statesmen began envisioning the creation of a region in the middle of Europe that could also include the Balkans and Turkey. What is the term for this envisioned region? | Mittleeuropa |
| What territories were gained by Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Montenegro in the first Balkan War of 1912? As well, against whom was this war waged? | They gained Macedonia and Albania from the Ottomans. Bulgarian claims upon this gained territory would be contested in the Second Balkan war of 1913. |
| Anxious about the Balkans, Austria-Hungary forged an alliance with this country in 1879, thereby forming the Dual Alliance. As well which country joined in 1882, which meant that the name changed to the Triple Alliance? | Germany in 1879, Italy in 1882 |
| In a move reminiscent of Metternich, Otto von Bismarck in 1873 forged this alliance with two other countries, thereby forming a conservative bloc. | Bismarck formed the Three Emperors' League with Russian and Austria-Hungary. |
| Name the treaty, the year, and the state that switched sides in World War I in exchange for the Allies' promises of territory in Africa, Asia minor, the Balkans, and elsewhere. | Italy switched sides, signing the Treaty of London in 1915. |
| A product of an out-dated military mindset, this strategy called for spirited attacks against the enemy and high troop morale, as well as old-fashioned, heroic virtues. | the cult of the offensive |
| Respectively, WWI's Central Powers and Allies emerged as blocs from which 2 earlier alliances? | the Triple Alliance and the Entente Cordiale |
| In May 1915, this new naval weapon of the Central Powers sank this passenger ship which killed over 1000 people, including 124 Americans, risking war with the United States. Name the weapon and the ship. | U-Boats sank the Lusitania, a passenger ship. U-Boat is short for Unterseeboot. |
| At the end of this Western Front battle which lasted several months starting in June 1916, 1.25 million men were killed or wounded, and the final result was stalemate. | the Somme (along the Somme River northwest of Paris) |
| On Easter Monday 1916, an effort to gain independence from Britain in the middle of World War I was carried out by a group of ill-prepared rebels. What did the rebels want? | Independence for Ireland. |
| This was Pres. Woodrow Wilson's blueprint for a non-vindictive peace settlement after World War I. | the Fourteen Points |
