The First World War

Question 1

What causes war?

Answer 1

Disagreement
Fear
Power
Money
Politics
Religion
Terrorism

Question 2

Causes of WW1?

Answer 2

Imperial rivalry
Naval Race
Alliance system
Empires

Question 3

What countries were part of the triple alliance?

Answer 3

England, France, Russia

Question 4

What countries were part of the triple entante?

Answer 4

Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary

Question 5

What is propaganda?

Answer 5

It is used to spread information in campaigns. It can be biased. It is a number of techniques which were used to encourage and persuade men to join the war.

Question 6

What would happen if men fought with friends?

Answer 6

If a trench got bombed it would kill all of them since they would stick together, but it did encourage men to go to war.

Question 7

Why do you think WW1 broke out?

Answer 7

I believe it was because of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.

Question 8

When was world war 1?

Answer 8

1914-1918

Question 9

What were the expectations of men who fought in the war?

Answer 9

To honour the king  
to be brave
teamwork
to be determined
and to be victorious

Question 10

What were the horrific conditions in world war one?

Answer 10

trenches
bed of sandbags
dead bodies
heavy guns
people dying in front of you
trenches were like a maze
no privacy when using the toilet
infection and disease- dysentery

Question 11

What were some problems in world war one?

Answer 11

horrific conditions
rat infestation
no proper protection of gear
bad smells
quality of food- bad

Question 12

How would you help prevent trench foot?

Answer 12

By using duckboards. They were wooden planks used to elevate up from the dirt floor of the trench.

Question 13

How would you prevent rat infestation?

Answer 13

French troops tried to control the rat problem by brining terrier dogs into the trenches with them.

Question 14

How would you solve the problem with protective gear?

Answer 14

Britain worked on improving head gear to reduce shrapnel injuries to the head from air burst artillery.

Question 15

How would you prevent bad smelling things?

Answer 15

The army made hygiene more seriously than before.

Question 16

Who was Harry Farr?

Answer 16

He was a British soldier who was executed during World War I for cowardice at the age of 25.

Question 17

What is the story of Harry Farr?

Answer 17

Harry Farr was a British soldier who was sick during the war and was not permitted to leave his trench when he was extremely sick and needed to leave and go to a hospital. The sergeant wouldn’t give him permission to leave so Harry was known as a coward and was then arrested. He had been executed because of ‘cowardice’.

Question 18

Why was Harry Farr sick/ ill?

Answer 18

He had shell shock or PTSD.

Question 19

Why didn’t the sergeant let Harry leave the front line?

Answer 19

because he thought Harry was faking it. He didn’t want anyone to fake it as they would loose men.

Question 20

What happened on the first day of the Somme battle?

Answer 20

There were lots of casualties and they were fighting in poor conditions.

Question 21

What is the battle of the Somme referred to as?

Answer 21

The bloodiest campaign of the First World War.

Question 22

Who was the leader of the Battle of the Somme?

Answer 22

Field Marshall Douglas Haig

Question 23

What was the Battle of the Somme about?

Answer 23

They wanted to break the Western Front and relieve pressure on the French at Verdun.

Question 24

When did the Somme begin?

Answer 24

1st July 1916

Question 25

What was Haig’s plan for the Battle of the Somme?

Answer 25

They would start heavily bombing and he planned to have not even a dead rat to be alive, and there were hundreds of rats so that was quite bold. The whistles would signal the attack and planes would spot enemy troops and trenches. They would be victorious, as he though.

Question 26

What was the problem with Haig’s plan of the Battle of the Somme?

Answer 26

He was focusing too much on winning and not of the disadvantages of what could happen.

Question 27

How did the Battle of the Somme actually go down?

Answer 27

The week long bombing alerted the German’s that there was a war on the way. The low cloud over the battlefield meant that British planes were unable to see where the German troops were. They only gained 5 miles of land but lost thousands of soldiers.

Question 28

What was Field Marshall Douglas Haig’s personality in the war?

Answer 28

He didn’t care about the men, he only cared about his plan.

He was weak and had no experience of war.

Question 29

Give evidence on why Haig should have been remembered as the butcher of the Somme.

Answer 29

His plan was very stupid and he wasn’t thinking about the possibilities of what could happen if his plan went wrong. Many lives were lost because of his stupidity.

Question 30

Give evidence on why Haig should NOT have been remembered as the butcher of the Somme.

Answer 30

Men were going to die either way but the amount of loses could have been stopped if he hadn’t made such a stupid plan.