Social Studies

11/10/15

Lesson26 pg. 57-60

1. Germany planned to break the deadlock by capturing
Verdun.
2. Three rings of fortresses surrounded Verdun
3. Because the French soldiers who normally manned the
fortresses were now fighting on the front, the Germans
thought that Verdun would fall quickly.
4. Verdun is located in eastern France
5. Verdun was well protected by forts that surrounded the
city.
6. The Meuse river ran through Verdun
7. Supplies could be brought into Verdun by river, railroad,
or roads
8. The Germans began their attack by bombarding the
fortresses with shells, machine gun fire, and poison gas
for two days.
9. The Germans expected to find all the French defenders
dead when their foot soldiers marched forward, but
instead the French soldiers began shooting at them.
10. General Henri Petain arrived to take command of the
French troops
11. The attitude that the French had after Petain arrived
was that of courage, determination, and motivation.
12. The goal of the French was to not let the Germans
have Verdun
13. The Battle of Verdun lasted ten months.
14. The good result for the French that came from the
Battle of Verdun was that Verdun was saved; the bad

result was the enormous amount of lives that were lost

on both sides.
15. Two things that were significant about the Battle of
Verdun was that it was the longest and bloodiest battle
of World War I.
16. The plan that the British troops carried out to help
the French during the Battle of Verdun was that they
attacked the Germans along the Somme River and
lured some of them away from Verdun.
17. The Battle of the Somme lasted for four months.
18. One British soldier called this battle, the glory and
the graveyard of our army.
19. The new Allied weapon introduced during the Battle
of the Somme was the tank.
20. The Allies called them tanks because they wanted
the Germans to think that the tanks were water
carriers.
21. The German word for tank meant an automobile
built to destroy trenches dug in the ground.

22. The Battle of Jutland took place on the North

Sea.
23. The two sides in the Battle of Jutland were the
British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas
Fleet.
24. the Battle of Jutland was different than the
Battle of Verdun because it took place on water, not
land; it was fast moving, and lasted less than thirty
minutes.

25. The British lost fourteen ships and the Germans

lost eleven.
26. Neither side won the Battle of Jutland
27. President Wilson requested that the Europeans
settle for peace without war. Neither side
wanted to do this nor give in to the enemy.
28. By 1916 more and more people were

leaning towards wanting the United States

to join the war.
29. The German action that angered the US in

1917 was that Kaiser Wilhelm II declared all

ships to be fair game for submarine attacks.
They were also upset because of the sinking
of the Lusitania.
30. The Americans joined the side of the Allies
31. The nickname that was given to the

American soldiers was doughboys.