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World War I

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The causes, major battles and aftermath of the First World War.

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What were the dates of World War I?

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  1. 1What were the dates of World War I?
    July 28, 1914 – November 11, 1918 (4 years, 3 months and 14 days)
  2. 2What was World War I also known as before World War II?
    The Great War or simply the World War
  3. 3What were the two main coalitions in World War I?
    The Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers
  4. 4Which countries were the main Allied Powers?
    France, United Kingdom and Empire, Russia (until 1917), Italy (from 1915), United States (from 1917), and Japan
  5. 5Which countries were the Central Powers?
    Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria (from 1915)
  6. 6How many total military casualties resulted from WWI?
    An estimated 30 million military casualties
  7. 7How many civilian deaths occurred from WWI-related causes and genocide?
    8 million civilian deaths
  8. 8What pandemic was a major factor in WWI deaths?
    The Spanish flu pandemic
  9. 9Who was assassinated on June 28, 1914, triggering the war?
    Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
  10. 10Who assassinated Franz Ferdinand?
    Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb
  11. 11Where did the assassination of Franz Ferdinand take place?
    Sarajevo, the capital of recently annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina
  12. 12What extremist group supplied the assassins with arms?
    The Serbian Black Hand intelligence organization
  13. 13When did Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia?
    July 28, 1914
  14. 14What was Germany's 1914 strategy called?
    The Schlieffen Plan
  15. 15What was the goal of the Schlieffen Plan?
    To quickly defeat France before transferring forces to the east to fight Russia
  16. 16Where was Germany's advance halted in September 1914?
    At the First Battle of the Marne
  17. 17What type of warfare characterized the Western Front by the end of 1914?
    Trench warfare with a near-continuous line of trenches from the English Channel to Switzerland
  18. 18When did the United States join the Allies?
    April 1917
  19. 19What German action prompted the United States to join the war?
    Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare against Atlantic shipping
  20. 20What event in Russia occurred in October 1917?
    The Bolsheviks seized power in the October Revolution
  21. 21When did Soviet Russia sign an armistice with the Central Powers?
    December 1917, followed by a separate peace in March 1918
  22. 22What was the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
    The separate peace treaty between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers in March 1918
  23. 23What was the final Allied offensive called?
    The Hundred Days Offensive (beginning in August 1918)
  24. 24When did Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicate?
    November 9, 1918
  25. 25When did World War I officially end?
    November 11, 1918 with the Armistice of 11 November 1918
  26. 26What major peace treaty was imposed on Germany?
    The Treaty of Versailles
  27. 27What was required of Germany under the Treaty of Versailles?
    Germany lost significant territories, was disarmed, and was required to pay large war reparations to the Allies
  28. 28What international organization was established after WWI to maintain world peace?
    The League of Nations
  29. 29Which new independent states were created after WWI?
    Poland, Finland, the Baltic states, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia
  30. 30What was the 19th-century balance of power in Europe called?
    The Concert of Europe

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