WORLD WAR I POWERPOINT STUDY GUIDE

NAME______________________________________

I. FILL-INS: Fill in the correct term(s) in the space provided.

1.___________________________________ This man ruled Germany at the outset of World War I. [Title, name, and number, please.]

2.______________________________ Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand in this city in Serbia, a state inside Austria-Hungary.

3.______________________________ Nationalism in this region in southeastern Europe “boiled over,” and provided the event that started World War I.

4. ______________________________ were volunteers in England that were allowed to serve side by side in the trenches since they signed up together.

5.______________________________ The woman in the World War I propaganda poster from France is doing this to the French soldier heading off to war.

6.___________________________________ A propaganda poster from the U.S. Department of Agriculture urged Americans to eat more of this, to save meat for the “doughboys.”

7.______________________________ The Schlieffen Plan called for an invasion of France through this neutral country.

8. _____________________________ The trenches in this country ran basically from the Atlantic Ocean to it’s boarder with Switzerland

9.______________________________ By 1915, this number of soldiers were living in the trenches of World War I.

10. _____________________________ This country built “dugouts” that were sturdy and comfortable. Both sides of the war coveted them.

11. The definition of attrition:

12. The definition of juxtaposition:

13.______________________________ This weapon caused the greatest number of battlefield casualties in World War I.

14.______________________________ Prolonged bombardment occasionally led to this mental condition, now more commonly called “battle fatigue.”

15.___________________________________ This American invented the machine gun in 1862.

16.______________________________ The British Army – foolishly ordered to launch wave after wave of full frontal assaults on entrenched positions covered by machine guns – suffered this number of casualties on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

17.______________________________ This specific type of colorless, odorless gas proved to be the most effective poison gas employed in World War I.

18.______________________________ This country suffered by far the most gas casualties and deaths in World War I.

19. ______________________________ Were finally mounted on planes after a timing device was invented.

20.___________________________________ This was the nickname of German flying ace Manfried von Richthofen.

21.___________________________________ This is the German name for the flamethrower.

22.______________________________ This Allied country – that fought until the end of the war in 1918 – suffered the greatest number of deaths in World War I.

23.______________________________ This country in the Central Powers suffered the most deaths in World War I.

24.___________________________________ Approximately this many people in total served in the combatant nations of World War I.

25. ___________________________________ Number of non-combatant deaths in World War I.

II. While reading this Power point LIST the 4 phases of WWI:They are throughout the entire ppt. Answer the following questions in complete sentences.Phase I 1914- called:

Why was it called that?

Phase 2 1915-called:

Why was it called that?

Phase 3 1916-1917- called:

Why was it called that?

Phase 4 1917-1918 called:

What lesson did the Americans learn from the Bolshevik Revolution?

(over)

Chorus to “Over There”

Over there, over there,Send the word, send the

word over there -That the Yanks are

coming,The Yanks are coming,

The drums rum-tumming

Ev'rywhere.So prepare, say a

pray'r,Send the word, send the

word to beware.We'll be over, we're

coming over,And we won't come

back till it's overOver there.

“Was it a War to End all Wars?”What lessons can you conclude from the tactics and methods used in the trenches of WWI. What lessons can be learned from the CAUSES of the war? What should be avoided in the future to prevent another world war? This is a question can be completed at home!