Transcript Who commanded the American army in France?

A little review…
Which World War did we
just study?
•One.
What was “The Jewel in the
Crown?”
• India—Britain’s
most important
colony.
Author of The Influence of
Sea Power Upon History
•Alfred Thayer
Mahan—and
Kaiser
Wilhelm was
his biggest
fan.
What president sent the U.S.
“Great White Fleet” around the
world on a “Goodwill Tour?”
• Theodore
Roosevelt.
What nation is
victimizing
China in this
editorial
cartoon?
• Great Britain: The
“Opium War” (183942) would allow
Britain to exploit
China for trade.
While China was crushed by
imperialism, what nation
adapted to it—becoming an
imperialist power?
•Japan
What did the British call the
Afrikaans, the European
settlers of South Africa?
•Boers (Boer War, 1899)
Who called the Berlin
Conference, which peacefully
settled the boundaries of
colonized Africa?
• Otto von
Bismarck
The Fashoda Crisis, a conflcit
over the Nile River, nearly
brought what two nations to
war in 1898?
•Great Britain and France
Who is Emilio Aguinaldo?
•Led Filipino
forces who
fought the
Americans in the
Philippine
Insurrection
This man, King Leopold of ____,
provides us with the cruelest
example of imperialism in the
way he ran the Congo.
•Belgium
What new power joined the
Triple Alliance after war broke
out?
• Turkey/Ottoman
Empire—they
replaced Italy.
(FYI: Triple
Alliance now
known as
“Central
Powers”)
The Refusal of the Reinsurance
Treaty turned what formerly
friendly nation against Kaiser
Wilhelm’s Germany?
•Russia
Who warned that Germany
must always be in a majority of
three?
•Bismarck
Bismarck was right. He
predicted the next war would
begin with some “damn fool
incident” in what region of
southeast Euroe?
•The
Balkans
The “Black Hand” wanted to
annex this Austrian territory,
which included the city of
Sarajevo, where Franz Ferdinand
and Sophie were shot.
•Bosnia
How did the Schlieffen Plan
bring England into the War?
• The German
army invaded
Belgium,
which
England was
obligated to
defend
Name the battle that stopped
the Schlieffen Plan short of its
goal: Paris.
• The First Battle
of the Marne—
taxicabs rushed
soldiers to the
front.
Why did trench warfare
become necessary?
•Effectiveness of the machine gun
What invention made a war of
movement possible in 1918?
•The
tank
Fort Douaumont cost 100,000
casualties in which battle?
•Verdun
What tactic did German general
von Falkenhayen pursue at
Verdun?
•Attrition
The British had too much
confidence in this new weapon
at the Somme
•Highexplosive
artillery
shells
In 1915, this ship went down
in ten minutes when hit by a
U-boat’s torpedo
•Lusitania
Who led the Arab Revolt
against Turkey?
•“Lawrence of Arabia” (T.E.
Lawrence)
Great Britain’s Australian
soldiers were attempting to
seize control of the Dardanelles
strait in what battle?
•Gallipoli.
(They
were
fighting
Turkey)
This German was the most
famous pilot of World War I.
What was his nickname?
•The Red Baron
(Manfred von
Richthofen, killed
in March 1918)
Their nickname?
•“Girls with
Yellow
Hands” or
“Canaries”
My least favorite general:
Commanded the British at
the Battle of the Somme
•Douglas Haig
Had to be the stupidest
recruiting idea of the war—a
British inducement to enlist.
•“Pals”
Battalions
What event happened here,
in Dublin, during Easter of
1916?
• The failed
Irish “Easter
Rising”
against Great
Britain.
Why did French poilus “baa-a”
like sheep as they went into
battle in 1917?
• They knew
they would be
slaughtered—
this was the
beginning of
the 1917
mutiny.
He fought for three years to
keep America out of the First
World War.
•Woodrow
Wilson
What does this political
cartoon refer to?
•The
Zimmermann
Telegram
Gen. Erich von Ludendorff’s*
_____Offensive aimed to knock
France and England out of the
war in 1918
*That’s a face only Mama Ludendorff could love.
•Peace
Who commanded the
American army in France?
John J. Pershing
Which branch of the American
military fought so ferociously at
Belleau Wood that the Germans
called them “Devil Dogs?”
• U.S. Marine
Corps
Why was John J. Pershing
reluctant to let his men fight
under French or British
command?
• French and
British generals
were experts at
getting their
men killed.
Tsarevich Alexis’s malady,
which only Rasputin could
heal?
•Hemophilia
Russian Gen. Samsonov
committed suicide after this
1914 defeat.
•Tannenberg
He led Russia during the very
short moderate phase of the
Revolution (Feb-Oct. 1917)
•Alexander
Kerensky
The name of Vashka’s unit?
•The Women’s
Battalion of
Death
Who was the ‘savior’ of the
Bolshevik Revolution during the
Civil War between “Reds” and
“Whites?”
•Leon Trotsky—
who proved to
be a natural
military leader
Trotsky’s armored train.
Buy me one, please.
What issue provoked
demonstrations—and then a
revolution—in St. Petersburg
early in 1917?
•The
price of
bread
In 1917 whom did the
Germans send to Russia, on a
sealed train, to start a
revolution?
•Lenin
What did the Russian
Communist Party call itself
(It means “majority”)
•The Bolsheviks.
Let’s be honest with each
other. BOLSHEVIK!!!!
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•Isn’t
“Bolshevik”
a fun word
to say?
What did the Treaty of Brest
Litovsk do?
• Russia pulled
out of the War,
but ceded to
Germany one
million square
miles of
territory and 62
million citizens
Who were the “Reds” and
the “Whites?”
•Opposing
sides in the
Russian
Civil War
Why were the German
people starving by 1918?
•The effectiveness of the Royal
Navy’s blockade.
What did Lenin order the
secret police, the Cheka, to do
in the summer of 1918?
• Execute the
Romanov
family.
This poet’s death in the last
week of the War symbolized
the waste of this terrible
conflict.
• Wilfred
Owen
The “Spanish Flu” first
appeared in large numbers
in…
•KANSAS!
(Among
American
soldiers)
What was Woodrow
Wilson’s postwar dream?
A peacekeeping
organization
—the League
of Nations; it
was the most
important of
his 14 Points
Name the document that created
this awkward little corridor that
separated parts of Germany
•Treaty of
Versailles
Number of the “War Guilt”
Article of the Treaty
Versailles?
•Article 231
What do you call payments
for war damage?
•Reparations
Hitler called this nation,
created by the Versailles Treaty
“a dagger in Germany’s heart.”
• Czechoslovakia
• Can you see
why he’d say
that?
What territory was restored
to France as a result of the
Treaty of Versailles?
•Alsace-Lorraine
What was the name of the
demilitarized “buffer zone”
between France and Germany?
•The Rhineland
•It was
established by
the Versailles
Treaty
The Balfour Declaration paved
the way for what nation that
would be created in 1947?
•Israel
What new nation completed
the Black Hand’s dream of a
“Greater Serbia?”
•Yugoslavia:
Created by
the Treaty of
Versailles
Identify the “Big Three” at
Versailles
•Lloyd George,
Clemenceau,
and Wilson.
8 million Americans would
fight in World War II, 1941-45.
How big was Germany’s army
to be, according to the
Versailles Treaty?
•100,000 men.
SUPER TRIVIA. When did
Germany make its final
reparations payment?
•2010