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Key Figures and Events of World War I

This quiz tests your knowledge of key figures and events during World War I, focusing on important leaders and their roles.

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1 ________ - Prime minister of Japan (9 October 1916 - 29 September 1918)

2 See ________

3 ________ - Commander-in-Chief of the French Army and Marshal of France, Supreme Allied Commander (26 March 1918 - 11 November 1918)

4 Vojvoda Radomir Putnik - Chief of the General Staff of the ________

5 The United States declared war on Germany on the grounds that Germany violated American neutrality by attacking international shipping and because of the Zimmermann Telegram that was sent to ________.

6 ________ - Commander of Royal Flying Corps - (August 1915 - January 1918)

7 ________ - Prime Minister of Portugal

8 Joseph Joffre - Commander-in-Chief of the ________ (3 August 1914 - 13 December 1916) and Marshal of France

9 "Jackie" Fisher - ________ - (1914 - May 1915)

10 Luigi Cadorna - Commander-in-Chief of the ________

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Minority Treaties of 1919-1921, designed to protect ethnic minorities, were not implemented on the victorious allies of World War I.
  • the National Assembly, Germany's legislature from 1919 to 1920, convened in Weimar to remind the World War I Allies of Germany's cultural history such as the Weimar residents Goethe and Schiller.
  • the Manifesto of the Sixteen was a controversial declaration of support for the Allied cause in World War I from a group of prominent anarchists.
  • the Allies broke through the largest German entrenched position in World War One at the Battle of the Hindenburg Line.
  • although he contributed to an anti-militarist resolution at a congress of the Second International in 1891, Christiaan Cornelissen was one of a few syndicalists to support the Allied effort in World War I in 1914.
  • Kamio Mitsuomi, an Imperial Japanese Army general, was in command of Allied ground forces at the Battle of Tsingtao in WWI.
  • after sinking the British ocean liner SS Dwinsk in June 1918, the German submarine U-151 remained in the area and used the survivors in seven lifeboats as a lure in order to try to sink additional Allied ships.
  • Japanese cruiser Izumo was dispatched to Malta as the flagship of an Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer unit in World War I, as part of Japan's contribution to the Allied war effort under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.
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