WW1

Question 1

4 causes of ww1?

Answer 1

Nationalism- your county’s better then others
Imperialism- desire to conquer colonies
Militarism- attempt to build a strong army
Alliances- eg triple alliance the want to help

Question 2

Why did Australian troops go to Gallipoli 1915?

Answer 2

From breakout of war in 1914, thousands of Australian men volunteered to fight the oncoming war

Question 3

What is ANZAC?

Answer 3

A soldier in the Australian and New Zeland Army corps

Question 4

Trench foot

Answer 4

Painful condition of feet caused my long immersion in cold water or mud marked by blackening and death of surface tissue

Question 5

Where did Australians fight on the western front ?

Answer 5

Leper, Belgium
Zonnebeke, Belgium
Ploegsteert, Belgium
Fromeelles, France

Question 6

Tomb of the unknown soldier

Answer 6

Body of an unknown Australian soldier recovered in France was moved to Australia, the hall of memory 1993, buried in a coffin , a bayonet, wattle and soil from France battlefield on tomb

Question 7

Hun

Answer 7

A derogatory nickname to describe German army

Question 8

Ottoman empire

Answer 8

Participated in ww1 as a central power

Question 9

Gallipoli 1915

Answer 9

Also known as the data nellies campaign , battle of Gallipoli, the battle of canal kale

Question 10

W.M Hughes

Answer 10

Australia’s longest serving pm till 1957

Question 11

Western front

Answer 11

The name the Germans have to a series of trenches running 700km from Belgian coast to Swiss border

Question 12

Armistice

Answer 12

An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting (truce)

Question 13

Demobilisation

Answer 13

Standing down a nations armed forces

Question 14

Pacifists

Answer 14

Person who believes war is wrong and unjustifiable

Question 15

Beersheba

Answer 15

Battle was faught 1917 when egypts attacked at Beersheba

Question 16

Somme river

Answer 16

Battle of he first ww by the British and French against Germans.

Question 17

Censorship

Answer 17

When the government decides why or not to show the people

Question 18

Ww1 technology (Germans)

Answer 18

First to give gas warfare serious development

Question 19

A home guns

Answer 19

A dominant weapon of ww1 battlefields.

Question 20

Howitzer

Answer 20

A cannon which fires a shell

Question 21

Conscription

Answer 21

A compulsory enlistment for armed wars

Question 22

Pandemic

Answer 22

A disease prevalent over a whole country - world

Question 23

Epidemic

Answer 23

A widespread of an infectious disease in a community (smaller then countries)

Question 24

Aborigines related to war

Answer 24

Over 1000 fought in ww1. Were treated poorly prior to war at war treated equally after war treated unequally with prejudice, discrimination

Question 25

Casualties of ww1

Answer 25

38 million casualties 17 million deaths

Question 26

Cavalry

Answer 26

Soldiers who fight on horse back

Question 27

Milita

Answer 27

Military force made up of ordinary citizens

Question 28

Why did Australia get involve in ww1?

Answer 28

• Australia is part of British empire
• Soldiers considered Britain home
• Andrew fisher (Britain=mother country)