Crash Course: World War I

• World War I was also known as the ______ War?
• What was the immediate cause of World War I?
• The Schlieffen plan led Germany to attack France by going through what country?
• Many historians have different arguments for why World War I happened.  What two reasons does John Green believe to be the most important?
• While trenches on the Western Front only stretched _____ miles as the crow flies, because of endless zig-zagging they may have gone as far as _______ miles
• There was more movement on the ______ front.
• In France, ____ of the population of men between 15 and 49 died during the war.
• What epidemic broke out toward the end of the war, killing three times as many people as the war itself?
• What two factors led to the war being so deadly? 
• What were the two most deadly weapons in the war?
• For the British, the trenches were two things above all else:  ____ and ____.
• What were some of the (very few) upsides of this war for soldiers?
• What are some reasons why soldiers kept fighting, despite danger and poor pay?
• What is John Green's advice about alcohol?
• What treaty ended World War I?
• What was the first part of the Russian Revolution called, and what was it about?
• Who led the provisional government?
• What was the second part of the Russian Revolution called, and what was it about?
• What three things did Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks promise people?
• What was Lenin's first major achievement?
• How did World War I affect the United States?
• What changes occurred in the Ottoman Empire, and what new nation arose?
• Art and literature during World War I shifted from ______-ism to _____-ism.