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Who gets killed by a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand
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Global War
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| analogy used to describe the tense environment of Europe before World War 1 | Powder Keg |
| Who gets killed by a Serbian nationalist group called the Black Hand | Archduke Franz-Ferdinand of Austria and his wife |
| what is the black hand | a serbian nationalist group that killed archduke of Austria |
| what ignited the "powder keg" | the assassination of archduke of Austria by Serbian led Black Hand |
| What truly put a start to WW1 | Germany's "blank check" to Austria in support against Serbia |
| what did mobilized armies start in august 1914 | their first armed conflicts |
| throughout northeastern France using old strategies and tactics- with incredibly dangerous and deadly industrialized weapons causing many casualties | Battle of the Frontiers |
| became the main style of combat in the western front of WW1 | Trench Warfare |
| Barren, dangerous landscape between the trenches | No Man's Land |
| How did people in the Trench life live? | boredom, terror, mud, rats, lice, corpses |
| term used to describe the order for troops (on both sides) to leave the trenches, run across No Man's Land, and assault enemy trenches | "Over the Top" |
| how did most "Over the Tops" end | failure and high casualty |
| a condition where feet rot off from being constantly wet | trench foot |
| first used by Germans, but everyone would use it, a way to overcome trenches, killed many | Poison Gas |
| used for reconnaissance purposes | airplanes |
| cheap and effective against surface ships | submarines |
| armored vehicles created to cross No Man's Land, not reliable until end of war | Tanks |
| most effective weapons of the Western Front | Artillery, Machine Guns, Barbed Wire |
| Killed more soldiers than any other weapon | Artillery |
| Exponentially increased the stopping power of a single soldier | Machine Guns |
| Strung across No Man's Land to slow advancing soldiers and make them easier to hit with artillery and machine guns | Barbed Wire |
| created a line of shellfire that moved in front of friendly soldiers and acted as a shield | Creeping Barrage |
| First major industrialized war | WW1 |
| Tactics of WW1 | romanticized notions of war=gone, traumatized veterans, industrialized medicine |
| what helped survival rates increase | industrialized medicine |
| The assassination of what man causes WW1 | Franz Ferdinand |
| Describe the different reactions to the war in terms of people of rural area to people in urban areas | more destruction in rural than in urban |
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