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1. Whose assassination is typically credited with starting WWI?
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2. Who murdered Ferdinand?
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3. When did Ferdinand's assassination take place?
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4. In what year did America join the war?
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5. Who was the U.S. president throughout the war?
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6. Which act allowed the U.S. government to implement the draft?
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7. During the war, American soldiers were often referred to as...
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8. Patriotic Americans referred to sauerkraut as _______ during WWI.
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9. Who was America's most successful flying ace during the war?
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10. Who was Germany's most successful WWI fighter pilot?
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11. The Red Baron and Rickenbacker were "aces" many times over. How many kills did American pilots need to qualify as an ace?
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12. Who sunk the RMS Lusitania in 1915?
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13. This French passenger ferry was nearly sunk by the Germans in 1916.
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14. Which legendary weapon was developed by the Germans during WWI?
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15. What was the name of the first tank developed by the British for WWI?
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16. WWI involved the first large-scale use of which notorious chemical weapon?
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17. What did the British invent in response to the Germans' use of poisonous gas against Allied forces?
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18. Some Highland Regiments famously took which minor precaution against gas attacks?
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19. True or false: America initially condemned the use of gas on the battlefield.
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20. When did the U.S. officially enter the war?
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21. Which country declared war on Germany the day after the United States did?
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22. After the U.S. declared war, how long did it take for the first Americans to actually engage in battle?
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23. What kind of warfare became a cornerstone of both sides' strategy during WWI?
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24. When did soldiers typically extend trenches?
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25. What was both sides' most common mode of trench defense to prevent raids?
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26. During the war, the trenches were most frequently plagued by...
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27. "Shellshock" was initially misdiagnosed as...
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28. Where was the majority of the Armenian population living during WWI?
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29. What was the ruling class' excuse for the start of the Armenian Genocide?
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30. It is estimated that about _________ Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1922.
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31. Name the Allies' main motivation for initiating the Battle of the Somme.
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32. How many losses did the British forces suffer on the very first day of the Battle of the Somme?
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33. Which future European leader was seriously wounded by an explosion at the Somme?
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34. Rudyard Kipling, author of "The Jungle Book," was asked to write a fitting epitaph for the uncountable thousands of unidentifiable bodies after the Somme. What did he come up with?
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35. Which weapon (pictured) had been around for hundreds of years when WWI began and yet, despite technological advances in weaponry, was still indispensable for soldiers at the time?
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36. A "Mills bomb" was the Brits' nickname for...
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37. Which famous rifle was the standard issue of the British Army during WWI?
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38. Which army was the first to deploy a flamethrower in battle?
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39. Which country suffered no major military naval losses during the war?
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40. What happened in Scapa Flow?
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![The Battle of Jutland is generally considered a win for the British despite the fact that they took heavy losses during the fight. Why?]()
41. The Battle of Jutland is generally considered a win for the British despite the fact that they took heavy losses during the fight. Why?
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42. Which American businessman set off to Europe in 1915, determined to sue for peace?
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43. Pope Benedict XV also sued for peace during the war, but he was widely suspected of favoring which side?
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44. What event spurred Russia to accept an armistice with Germany and effectively remove itself from the war?
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45. Germany first reached out to _________ to express a desire for peace.
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46. The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allies on June 28, 1919. What was the significance of that date?
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47. How many German civilians died in the eight months between the armistice that ended the conflict and the Treaty of Versailles?
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48. Which of these countries was formed after the war ended?
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49. What was the primary problem with the redrawn map of Europe following the end of the war?
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50. Born out of the Paris Peace Conference, the League of Nations was largely ineffective and failed in its primary goal of...
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