WWI Flashcards
Who was part of the British empire?
India, South Africa, West Indies, Australia, New Zealand
What was the cause of World War I
- Competition over Empire
- Australia hungry
- The death of Franz Freudian–The assassination that happened because people wanted to recreate Great Serbia and to be independent
Why did soldiers volunteer?
- They feel pressured. When gone to an event and men did not join they were give white feather to show cowardice
- Some would be for forced
- India thought they were going to get independence.
- Convinced by propaganda
- Joined as a football team
- They felt like they had a duty to the King
World War I was a global war because of the soldiers
• Indian soldiers – they were sent to Brighton pavilion
when injured. They were separated from the white. Gangs Singh was a Indian solider and given a medal for killing five German soldier He was a veteran. His regiment was out member. And they only have 2 Machine guns and no grenades or her holds jam jar filled with dynamite.
• Chinese labour corpse- where in charge of making tanks like Woking on Deborah. Many Chinese stayed on to dig cemeteries and carve headstones and some died after the shooting stopped in the Spanish flu epidemic in 1919.
Food
Britain gave food that was familiar to the soldiers or labour because they didn’t want them to rebel against them, Britain was very paranoid. Same thing was gonna happen to them like it did in Russia
Fighting=
WWI was a global war because fighting happened all over the world
Westen Front =
France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland
Eastern front=
Russia
In 1917
Fighting in the middle east
In 1918
Fighting in North Africa
Fighting around China and Japan
Mostly on Sis
Germany
Italy
Austria- Hungary
Britain
France
Russia
