Gross, Joselin
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WW1 Test Review
***Warning: NOT ALL information on the test IS ON the Test Review***
1) In what year did WW1 being? End?
2) The United States is neutral, but got involved what year?
3) What two reasons caused the United States to get involved?
4) Who was President at that time?
5) Allies and Central Powers
-Allies
-Britain
-France
-Russia
-United States (when they later join in 1917)
-Central Powers
-Germany
-Austria- Hungary
-Turkey (Automan Empire)
-Italy (They started off with CP but then joins Allies: they’re with whoever is the most powerful at the time)
6) They believe the war would be over by Christmas (that didn’t happen my dudes)
7) Peeps in War
-65 million fought in the war
-20 million are wounded
-10 million deaths
-20 million war related deaths
*8) Franz Ferdinand
-On June 28 1914 he and his wife wereassassinated by a Sandwich-eating Serb which was an event which caused WW1 to begin in Europe
-In what city was he assassinated?
-He LOVED hunting
-His wife Sophie accompanied Ferdinand even though he insisted she stay
-Because of the drivers mistake Sophie and Franz died
*9)Who killed Ferdinand and Sophie? What did he die of? What “gang” was he a part of during that time?
10)What was the Purpose of the Black Hand? When and where did they form?
11)) The Lafayette Escadrille (France)
-Some Americans didn’t wait for the U.S. to join the war, but for legal reasons most countries wouldn’t accept them except the French (Hooha!)
-In April 1916 seven American piolets formed the fighting group, they were wealthy young men who have been living in Paris
*12) Frank Luke
-A CUTE WILD CARD!!! ?
-He’s a risk taker who shot down 15 balloons and 3 airplanes
-After he downed three balloons and shot a few German Soldiers on the ground, he landed his plane to get a drink of water and got shot
*13) Eugene Bullard (Just a few things about his AWESOME life)
-The only African-American combat piolet in WW1
- He ran away from home at age 8 to go to France
-The French Government awarded him a Croix de Guerremedal
-He was a professional boxer
*14) Barron Manfred VonRichthfen
- A German Ace of Aces, he joined the German Imperial Air Service. Because of his record of conquests in the air and the color of his planes, he became known as the Red Baron.
15) Airplanes flew a WHOPPING 64mph when the first shots of the Great War rang out!
16) By 1918 three specialized types of aircraft had emerged: the fighter, the observation aircraft, the bomber
*17) Brig Gen Billy Mitchell
-Believed strongly in the future of aviation as an instrument in warfare
-Mitchell’s Three-Ponged Theory
-Air Superiority over the battlefield must be completely assured
-Air power may then be employed offensively against the enemy’s ground troops
-Arial bombardment may be directed against the enemy’s supplies, railroads, communications, and airdromes
18) Britain endured many German bombing raids
19) Treaty of Versailles
A treaty signed at 1919 to determine fault for WW1 (it laid out great punishments for Germany☹)
20) Most of the war is fought in western front
21) The machine gun is a weapon that changed troop movement on separating line
22) Germans introduced poisoned gas to warfare
23)Where women drafted or allowed to enlist?
24)Women had to give up corsets so the iron could be used in war
25) Americans were flyingBritish and French planes towards the end of the war
26) Until WW1 most people thought the role of the aircraft was made for Aerial reconnaissance
27) We don’t keep a standing army because its expensive and you don’t like the military pointing guns at you own citizens
28) Dough Boys was the name for U.S. troops in WW1
29) Everyone used poison gas by the end of the war