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Question 1: What was an armored combat vehicle that moved on chain tracks?
Answer:
the tank Question 2: Where did the Russian forces launch their attack at the beginning of the war?
Answer:
Into both Austria and Germany Question 3: The area along the German-Russian border where Russians and Serbs battled Germans and Austro-Hungarians
Answer:
Eastern Front Question 4: Why were Germany and her Allies concerned with more than just the Western and Eastern Front?
Answer:
Because as the war raged on, fighting spread beyond Europe to Africa and to the Southwest and Southeast Asia, making it a world war.
Question 5: The nations that fought together during World Wat I on the side of Austria-Hungary and Germany
Answer:
Central Powers
Question 6: When did the Battle of Somme end?
Answer:
In November 1916 Question 7: Who rushed soldiers from Paris to the front to force the German generals to retreat on Sept. 5, 1914?
Answer:
600 taxicabs Question 8: How far did the British advance in the Somme valley as a result of the Battle of Somme?
Answer:
about 5 miles Question 9: What geographic disadvantage did Germany and Austria-Hungary face in fighting the war?
Answer:
sandwiched between the enemy Allied countries.
Question 10: When did the trench warfare on the Western front start?
Answer:
Early 1915
Question 11: Which new weapon was an effective warship?
Answer:
The submarine Question 12: Poison Gas, Machine gun, tank, and submarine with the torpedo(an underwater missile)
Answer:
The new weapons of War
Question 13: What factors contributed to Russia's war difficulties
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not industrialized, short on food, guns, ammunition, clothes, boots, and blankets, supply shipments limited by German control of Baltic Sea and submarine in North sea and beyond.
Question 14: Who introduced the tank in 1916 at the Battle of Somme?
Answer:
the British
Question 15: Which countries comprised the Central Powers?
Answer:
Germany, Austria-Hungary.
Question 16: Whgat was the submarine's primary weapon against ships?
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the torpedo, an underwater missile Question 17: When did the war turn into a long and bloody stalemate, or deadlock, along the battlefields of France?
Answer:
Fall of 1914
Question 18: How did the armies dig the trenches?
Answer:
Opposing armies dug miles of parallel trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire.Question 19: What stretched nearly 500 miles from the North Sea to the Swiss border and was a "terrain of death"?
Answer:
The Western Front
Question 20: Which side introduced poison gas?
Answer:
The Germans
Question 21: The German strategy to quickly attack and defeat France in the west, and then rush east to fight Russia
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Schlieffen Plan Question 22: Britain's 1907 alliance with France and Russia ensuring that Britian would not fight againist either country
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Triple Entente Question 23: What was the stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border called?
Answer:
the Eastern Front
Question 24: Was the war in the east more mobile than the war in the west?
Answer:
yes
Question 25: Why was the Battle of the Marne so significant?
Answer:
defeat of the Germans left the Schlieffen Plan in ruins, In east Russian forces had already invaded Germany, Germany had to fight a long war on two fronts, war on the Western Front settled into a stalemate.
Question 26: What was the outcome of trench warfare on the Western Front?
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Armies traded hugh losses of human life for pitifully small land gains.
Question 27: Why was Russia's war effort near collapse by 1916?
Answer:
Russia was not industrialized, short on food, guns ammunition, clothes, boots, and blankets, and Allied supplies were limited.