the great war quiz

World war I

lasted from 1914 to 1918, first major conflict fought with industrial era weapons, known as the great war and the war to end all wars

June 28, 1914

Gavrilo Princip

Rupert Brooke

How Rupert Brooke died

April 23, 1915, at age 27. Died from blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite. Never fought in combat

War art

Created by artists that were deeply affected by the war, particularly Käthe Kollwitz.

How Kollwitz’s son died

Peter Kollwitz, age 18, volunteered in 1914. Killed in Belgiumn eary on the war.

Art themes

death claiming the young, starvation and deprivation, grief and trauma, anti-war protest

Who won the war based on the map

Trench warfare: stalemate

Large trench systems from the North sea to Switzerland. Full of wire, mud, corpses, and shell craters. Years of bloody stalemate with minimal movement as a result.

Chemical warfare

Both sides used chlorine, phosgene, and mustard gas. This caused blindness, chemical burns, and suffocation. Gas masks became essential but were not always affective. Symbol of the war’s technological brutality.

Wilfred Owen

How Wilfred Owen died

returned to combat after recovering from shell shock. Killed November 4, 1918, at the Sambre-Oise Canal. His parents received the telegram on November 11, 1918, the day the war ended.

PTSD

Woodrow Wilson “he kept us out of the war”

Wilson won re-election in 1916 with a neutrality platform. Cited Washington/s warning against “entangling alliances. US public opinion was deeply divided.

Helen Keller “strike against war”

Keller argues that workers carry burdens while white elites profit. Encourages peaceful resistance to militarism. Demonstrates the strength of America anti-war movements before 1917.

“Over there” patriotic song

Armistice day

Winners (allies)

britain, france, russia (until 1917), US (from 1917), italy, japan, serbia, belgium, romania, greece.

Central powers (losers)

germany, austria-hungary, ottoman empire, bulgaria

Treaty of versailles

Treaty of versailles, wilson’s fourteen points

Casualties of war

WWI death toll was unprecedented due to industrial weaponry

Worldwide losses

65 million mobilized, 10 million soldiers killed, 20 million soldiers wounded, 8-10 million civilian deaths

Major participant losses

germany 2 million dead, russia 1.8 million dead, france 1.3 million dead, austria-hungary 1.2 million dead, ottoman empire 770 thousand dead, britain and empire 900 thousand dead, italy 650 thousand dead

United states