Study World War I in 96 Flashcards: From the Sarajevo Assassination to the Armistice of 1918
Learn World War I with 96 flashcards: alliances, the Schlieffen Plan, Verdun, the Somme, Brest-Litovsk, Versailles and the four empires that fell.
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World War I punishes vague knowledge. You can "know" that an archduke was shot and that trenches were muddy, and still fail every question about which alliance came first, which armistice was signed where, or how many empires collapsed in 1918. The World War I deck (code HX2451) on Flip It turns that sprawl into 96 flashcards you can actually finish in a week.
Study this deck: World War I
1 / 10What were the dates of World War I?
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
Start with the eight cards that anchor everything else
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
| Who was assassinated on June 28, 1914, triggering the war? | Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne |
| Which countries were the Central Powers? | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria (from 1915) |
| What was Germany's 1914 strategy called? | The Schlieffen Plan |
| Where was Germany's advance halted in September 1914? | At the First Battle of the Marne |
| When was chlorine gas first used on the Western Front? | April 22, 1915, at the Second Battle of Ypres |
| What was the only full-scale clash of battleships during WWI? | The Battle of Jutland in May/June 1916 |
| What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk? | The separate peace between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers in March 1918 |
| Which four empires dissolved after WWI? | The Russian, German, Austro-Hungarian, and Ottoman empires |
Once those eight are automatic, the remaining 88 cards stop feeling like trivia and start slotting into a story.
What the 96 cards cover
The deck runs from the 19th-century background to the post-war settlement: the Concert of Europe, Bismarck and the Franco-Prussian War, the Dual Alliance of 1879, the Triple Alliance, the Franco-Russian Alliance of 1894, the Entente Cordiale, the Triple Entente, HMS Dreadnought and Tirpitz's naval race, the Rüstungswende of 1911, the Bosnian Crisis, the Balkan League, the two Balkan Wars, Gavrilo Princip and the Black Hand, the July ultimatum, the 1839 Treaty of London and Belgian neutrality, the Race to the Sea, Verdun, the Somme, trench foot and trench fever, the Lusitania, unrestricted submarine warfare, the convoy system, HMS Furious and the first carrier raid, Renault FT tanks, the October Revolution, the Hundred Days Offensive, Wilhelm II's abdication, the Armistice of Mudros, the Armistice of Villa Giusti, the Paris Peace Conference, the Treaty of Versailles, the League of Nations, and the new states born in 1918-1919 — Poland, Finland, the Baltic states, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia. Global theatres are in there too: German East Africa under Lettow-Vorbeck, Japan at Tsingtao, New Zealand in Samoa, and the 1.3 million Indians who served.
Two tactics that fit this deck specifically
Drill the alliances as a chain, not as isolated cards. 1879 Dual Alliance, 1882 Triple Alliance when Italy joins, 1894 Franco-Russian Alliance, 1904 Entente Cordiale, 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention completing the Triple Entente. Recited in order, the dates cross-check each other; learned separately, they blur into one another within days.
Keep the casualty figures apart on purpose. Verdun (700,000 to 975,000 over ten months) and the Somme (roughly 420,000 British, 200,000 French, 500,000 German) are the two numbers students most often swap. Review them in the same session and force yourself to say which battle lasted February to December and which ran July to November — plus the outlier that gets its own card, the 57,500 British casualties of 1 July 1916.
Keep going
If you like dated, checkable facts, pair this deck with our guides to key dates of ancient history and to AP US History.
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