OK Troops! At ease and listen up!
It's time to test your level of WWI knowledge!
A score of 10 on this test, plus the Bonus Question, earns you an "Intermediate Level" rating. Future tests will evaluate for the "Advanced" and "Expert" Levels.
Answers below, but NO PEEKING!
1. British Intelligence intercepted this diplomatic communiqué that would alarm the United States.
2. The longest battle of World War I would commence here in 1916.
3. 1915 marked a failed naval assault at this body of water that in-turn led to an ill-fated land campaign.
4. This secret agreement, resulted in Italy entering the war on the side of the Entente.
5. U.S. troops were sent to plug a gap in Allied lines at this French city in late May 1918.
6. The British 1917 campaign in Flanders opened with this successful mining operation in June.
7. Considered the most successful Russian operation of the war—despite over 1,000,000 Russian casualties—this offensive bears the name of its principal commander. Name him.
8. The "Black Day of the German Army" occurred during this battle.
9. This new weapon saw its first battle action on the Somme battlefield in September 1916.
10. The last of the Central Powers to enter the war.
11. This 1915 defeat of an Anglo-Indian force near Baghdad set the stage for an even more disastrous defeat at Kut.
12. Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee lost his fleet, and his own life, in this naval action in the south Atlantic.
Bonus: These two events happened exactly five years apart on 28 June.
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