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 AustroHungarian 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 courtmartial and death.