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Understanding the Central Powers in World War I

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Central Powers during World War I, including key figures, events, and alliances.

#World War I #Central Powers #Ottoman Empire #Austro-Hungarian Empire #Triple Alliance #Military History

1 What is the capital of Central Powers?

2 What era did Central Powers belong to?

3 İsmail Enver - Commander-in-Chief of the ________

4 ________ - Chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff

5 On 20 May 1882, they were joined by the ________ in what was known as the Triple Alliance.

6 All four were located between the Russian Empire in the east and the ________ and the United Kingdom in the west.

7 The Ottoman Empire followed suit on 30 October 1918 in the face of British and ________ gains in Palestine and Syria.

8 Following the outbreak of war in ________ during August 1914, the Ottoman Empire intervened at the end of October by taking action against Russia, resulting in declarations of war by the Triple Entente.

9 The three nations fought alongside each other under the Army of Islam in the ________.

10 ________ (allies of Nazi Germany in WWII)

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Central Powers that helped clear Bolshevik forces from Ukraine.
  • the Romanian Symbolist writer Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was an anarchist, an associate of the occultist Sâr Péladan (both pictured), and a supporter of his country's alliance with the Central Powers.
  • because of the controversy about excluding mathematicians from the Central Powers at the 1920 and 1924 International Congresses of Mathematicians, from 1932 and on the ICMs are not numbered.
  • Captain Cedric Howell was awarded the DSO for bringing down eight Central aircraft in a four-day period in July 1918, including destroying five in a single action against ten or fifteen planes.
  • Pinchas Rosen, Israel's first Minister of Justice, served in the German army during World War I.
  • Polish I Corps in Russia, originally intended to fight for the Triple Entente against the Central Powers, was forced to ally itself with the German Ober Ost forces.
  • Central Powers combat pilots often painted individual color schemes on their personal aircraft (example pictured) in spite of the factory-applied lozenge camouflage.
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