World War I Internet Activity *Go to the website http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/chapters/index.

html and use it to answer the following

questions.
World War I was fought when? Contemporaries called WWI what? 3. When did a Serbian nationalist assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand? 4. What were some of the volatile elements that led to WWI? 5. WWI marked the first use of what? 6. The Allies were chiefly whom? 7. The Central Powers consisted primarily of whom? 8. The U.S. joined the Allies in what year? 9. How many people had died on the battlefield during WWI? *Click on Explosion / Stalemate on the right hand side 10. The picture under the word Explosion was the Austro-Hungarian Emperor in 1914. What was his name? *Click on More On Explosion 11. Prior to WWI, what social and governmental changes did the British people demand? 12. Who was the Serbian fanatic who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand? 13. By August, millions of Europeans -- especially the military and diplomatic leaders of Austria-Hungary, Germany and Russia -- saw war as what? 14. View the map of 1914. What sea separated Russia and the Ottoman Empire? 15. Read the Historian Commentary on the right side of the page. The majority of Germans believed what about WWI? *Click on the Maps & Battles square on the top right of the page 16. Which German Chancellor modernized Germany? 17. His aim was what? 18. What did Kaiser Wilhelm II do when he came to power? 19. A war between Austria and Serbia meant what? 20. View the map on the top of the page. Serbias neighbor to the north was who? 21. Serbias neighbor to the east was who? 22. Click on Play Animation. On what date was the Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated? 23. Click on Play Animation. What happened one month after the assassination Archduke Ferdinand? 24. Click on Play Animation. Which traditional ally of Serbia entered the war? 25. Click on Play Animation. War between Austria and Russia meant what? 26. Click on Play Animation. Russia at war with Germany meant what? 27. Click on Play Animation. What happened on 23 May 1915? *Click on The Outbreak of War on the right hand side 28. Read the Outbreak of War. The German Schlieffen Plan called for what? 29. Why did the German Army sweep through Belgium? 30. The German generals believed the war would be over by when? 31. What were devastating defensive weapons against traditional tactics? 32. Why did the Schlieffen Plan unravel? 33. How many Russians fought at the Battle of Tannenberg? 34. How many people fought in the First Battle of the Marne? 35. By mid-September, what had begun? 36. Scroll up to the map and click on Play Animation. What happened on August 4th, 1914? 37. Click on the green arrow. What did the French Army do? Why? 38. Click on the green arrow. What did the German Army do outside of Paris? 39. Click on the green arrow. On the Eastern Front, the Germans defeated the Russians where? 40. Click on the green arrow. The French met the Germans at which battle? 1. 2.

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Click on the green arrow. By mid-September, the Germans were pushed back to where? The Western Front was primarily in which country?