Name  __________________________________  Date  ____________________  Period  ______    

History Channel: The Christmas Truce Video Guide

Directions:  Answer  the  following  questions  as  you  watch  the  video.    

1. The    _________________      _____________  is  the  war  zone  between  Germany,  France,  and  Belgium.  

2. On  June  28,  1914,  Serbian  nationalist  Gavrilo  Princip  killed  Austro-­‐Hungarian  crown  prince  

___________    ________________.  

3. The  Germany  strategic  plan  where  Germans  would  come  down  through  Belgium  to  take  over  Paris,  

France  was  called  the    _______________________    __________.  

4. The  trench  system  stretched  _______  miles  from  the  North  Sea  to  Switzerland  and    ____________      

________________    had  become  a  military  science.  

5. Many  regiments  along  the  Western  Front  recorded  more  deaths  in  the  winter  of  1914  to    frostbite,  

gangrene,  and  _______________      __________.  

6. There  was  an  explosion  of  _______________________  

in  the  First  World  War  seeking  to  turn  the  Germans  and  

the  British  against  one  another.  

7. On  Christmas  Eve  1914,  what  was  happening  at  the  German  line?      

         

8. What  happened  on  both  sides  of  the  Western  Front  and  no  man’s  land  that  night?      

           

9. What  happened  that  Christmas  morning  in  1914?      German  soldier  decorating  a  Christmas  tree  at  the  front  lines.    

 

10. Consorting  with  the  enemy  was  one  step  away  from  _________________,  a  crime  punishable  by  court-­‐martial  and  death.    

11. What  grim  task  did  soldiers  have  to  tend  to  that  morning  when  they  left  their  trenches?      

 

 

12. German  and  Allied  soldiers  played  a  game  of    ___________________.  

 

13. What  happened  on  other  parts  of  the  Western  Front  that  Christmas  day?      

 

 

14. The  fear  of  ______________________  was  enough  to  get  most  of  the  soldiers  back  to  fighting.  

15. __________________home  about  the  kindness  of  the  opposing  sides  contradicted  the  propaganda  

the  public  had  seen.  

16. Did  the  armistice  last?    

17. What  did  they  do  to  prevent  another  Christmas  Truce  the  following  winter  in  1915?    

 

 

18. What  took  WWI  from  a  “traditional”  war  to  a  modern  war?