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31 May 1916/only major naval battle of WW1/Brit Jellicoe defeated German Scheer/Brits kept control of North Sea/German navy stayed in port for rest of War/250 ships & 100,000 men | |
German defensive position built in winter (1916-17) in France from Arras to Laffaux near Soissons on the Aisne | |
Failed Allied campaign to take Dardanelles Ottomans/sponsored by Churchill/led to establishment of Republic of Turkey & rise of Kemal Ataturk who commanded there | |
Progressive US Pres/elected on slogan 'He kept us out of the war'/had been Pres of Princeton University & Gov of New Jersey/had Fourteen Points plan for peace w/League of Nations | |
Name of German republic founded after WWI | |
Treaty ending WWI | |
Battle (Aug-Sept, 1918) which reversed German gains in Operation Michael | |
Deadliest pandemic in history/fall 1918 to summer 1919/killed more people than WW1/killed 20-50 million world-wide | |
Last major German Spring Offensive on Western Front (July-Aug, 1918)/Allied victory, French counterattack w/several hundred tanks smashed German rt flank/led to 100 Days Offensive | |
Served as Quartermaster general & joint head of German army/victor at Battles of Liege & Tennenberg/took part in unsuccessful coup d'etat of Kapp & Hitler's Beer Hall Putsch | |
Feb-Dec 1916/longest battle of WW1/over 1 million casualties/Falkenhayn's goal was to take French lives/fought over Forts Douaumont & Vaux/Germans called off after taking them | |
6-12 Sept 1914 battle/1st major conflict/halted German invasion of France/Paris taxis carried troops to the front | |
1917 US law/empowered Federal Government to begin drafting men to raise army for WW1/cancelled at end of War | |
Archduke (& wife Sophie) assassinated in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914/led to Austria-Hungary's invasion of Serbia which led to WWI | |
US commander of American Expeditionary Force in WW1/led buffalo soldiers in West/fought at San Juan Hill/led expedition to Mexico to catch Pancho Villa/called Black Jack | |
Briefly world's biggest ship/launched by Cunard Line in 1907/sunk by German U-boat in 1915 killing 1198 total, 128 Americans/influenced US decision to enter War | |
Used as scouts and in bombing raids in Britain during War killing over 500 people there | |