WWI Keywords Flashcards
(10 cards)
1
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Trigger
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A
2
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Long-term cause
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A
3
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Empire
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A
4
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Alliances
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A
5
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Arms race
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A
6
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A trench
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A
7
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Women’s Land Army
WLA
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The Women’s Land Army (WLA) was a British civilian organisation created during the First and Second World Wars to work in agriculture replacing men called up to the military. Women who worked for the WLA were commonly known as Land Girls. The Women’s Land Army employed over 260,000.
8
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Munition workers
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947,000 women were employed in munitions by November 1918. The women working in munitions factories were from mainly lower-class families and were between the ages of 18 and 30 years old.
9
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Munitions
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A collective term for ammunition
10
Q
Ammunition
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Supply or quantity of bullets and shells
