C&F Stats

Question 1

Franco Russian Alliance

Answer 1

1894

Question 2

The Entente Cordiale

Answer 2

1904

Between Britain and France

Question 3

Anglo Russian Entente

Answer 3

1907

Question 4

The first Moroccan Crisis

Answer 4

1905-06

Question 5

The second Moroccan Crisis

Answer 5

Or Agadir crisis

1911

Question 6

The Bosnian Crisis

Answer 6

1908-09

Question 7

The Dreadnaught

Answer 7

Britain introduced it in 1906

By 1914, Britain had 29 and Germany had 17

Question 8

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassination

Answer 8

20th June 1914

Question 9

Austria Hungary’s declaration of war on Serbia

Answer 9

28th July 1914

Question 10

Russia mobilises and Germany threatens them not to

Answer 10

30th July 1914

The Tsar fully supported Serbia’s attempts to create a greater Serbia - panslavism

Question 11

Germany declares war on Russia

Answer 11

1st August 1914

Italy declares itself neutral and germany threatens France to remain neutral.

Question 12

France mobilises

Answer 12

2nd August 1914

Question 13

Germany declares war on France and invaded Belgium as part of the schlieffen plan

Answer 13

3rd August 1914

Question 14

Britain declares war on Germany

Answer 14

4th August 1914

Question 15

Stalemate

Answer 15

November 1914-1918
The BEF has been decimated.
The French had around 1 million dead.

Question 16

Death rates on the front line

Answer 16

17% - officers
12% - soldiers
78 officers above the rank of brigadier general from Britain and the British empire died on active service and 146 were wounded.

Question 17

Background info the A-H and Serbia conflict

Answer 17

1912-13 there had been many local wars in the Balkans.

Serbia emerged as the most powerful country in the Balkans and A-H wanted to crush them.

Question 18

The battle of mons

Answer 18

The BEF were led by sir John French.
Landed in France on 23rd August.
The allied troops were led by lieutenant Douglas haig and used Lee Enfield.303 rifles - Germans thought they were against machine gun fire.

Question 19

The French attack at Alsace Lorraine

Answer 19

The French lost over 200,000 men in 12 days

Question 20

Verdun - new tech

Answer 20

Aircraft: French gained air superiority, caught german land.
Artillery: after weeks of it the French failed to recapture lost territory from Germans.
Flamethrowers: made by Germans, new and unexpected.
Gas shells: disabled French soldiers.

Question 21

The Somme - new tech

Answer 21

Artillery: didn’t kill German
Creeping barage: successful, unseen to enemy (Germans).
Aircraft: made useless by the weather.
The tank: effective, hard to shoot at.
Machine guns: halted French fire.
Offensive mining: shells at Lochnagar detonated 7.28 on 1 July 1916.

Question 22

Passchendaele

Answer 22

Artillery: killed 10,000 german soldiers, destroyed British mining.
Offensive mining: attack on messines ridge where 19 mines were exploded at one - took 3hrs for brits to take german positions.
Approx 325,000 allied lost.

Question 23

Other wee battles

Answer 23

Vimy Ridge: a victory for Canadians, took 4000 german soldiers.
Dug tunnels, element of surprise.
Cambrai: by evening brits had gained 9km of territory + taken 8000 prisoners. Lots of tanks deployed, 476 with infantry, poison gas too.

Question 24

Tanks

Answer 24

Invented by brits.
1917: Little Willie, fumes made crew sick.
Used first in battle of Somme.
Mark V: only needed 1 driver not 4.
Mark IV: lors of armour, middle of war.
‘Whippet’: 1918 battle of Amiens. 3 crew.