World War I

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Memorize these and recognize 43.4% of all World War I clues.

1 the Lusitania 6x

2 Russia 5x

3 Eddie Rickenbacker 5x

4 John J. Pershing 5x

5 Gallipoli 4x

6 Belgium 4x

7 the tank 4x

8 the Treaty of Versailles 4x

9 the Dardanelles 3x

10 no man's land 3x

11 France 3x

12 Austria-Hungary 3x

13 the League of Nations 3x

14 Herbert Hoover 3x

15 a trench 3x

16 Zeppelins 2x

17 Verdun 2x

18 Turkey 2x

19 Sergeant York 2x

20 Serbia 2x

21 Sarajevo 2x

22 poison gas 2x

23 Nicholas II 2x

24 Mexico 2x

25 Jutland 2x

26 doughboy 2x

27 David Lloyd George 2x

28 Churchill 2x

29 Canada 2x

30 Big Bertha 2x

31 Alvin York 2x

32 a Zeppelin 2x

33 All Quiet on the Western Front 2x

34 to strafe 2x

35 the Ottoman Empire 2x

36 the Allies 2x

37 Fourteen Points 2x

38 Hindenburg 2x

39 Georges Clemenceau 2x

Sample Clues

The May 8, 1915 headline in the N.Y. Times blared this ship "sunk by a submarine... twice torpedoed off Irish coast"

the Lusitania

6. Any foreign interference in this country's affairs would be un-bear-able

Russia

America's top ace of the war, he won the Medal of Honor & the French Croix de Guerre

Eddie Rickenbacker

U.S. officials had planned to send only 650,000 troops, but this AEF commander convinced them to send 3 times that

John J. Pershing

British general Sir Ian Hamilton's amphibious assault on this peninsula in April of 1915 ended in a bloody 8-month stalemate

Gallipoli

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Other 147

the Lusitania (6) Eddie Rickenbacker (5) John J. Pershing (5) Belgium (4) Herbert Hoover (3) Russia (3) the Dardanelles (3) a Zeppelin (2) Jutland (2) France (2)

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the Treaty of Versailles (4) no man's land (3) a trench (3) Gallipoli (3) the tank (3) David Lloyd George (2) Sarajevo (2) trenches (1) the Hellespont (the Dardanelles) (1) World War I (1)

World War II 5

Canada (2) General Foch (1) Churchill (1) Marshal Ferdinand Foch (1)

Ancient 3

Greece (1) the Turks (1) Gallipoli (1)

Revolutionary Era 2

Calvin Coolidge (1) Russia (1)

Medieval 1

The Red Baron (1)

Colonial / Exploration 1

Japan (1)

Civil War 1

the Stars and Stripes (1)