Wales & wars

Question 1

The first Boer war

Answer 1

1880-1881

Question 2

The second Boer war

Answer 2

1899-1902

Question 3

When did the Lib party dominate the political life in Wales?

Answer 3

1860s - 1922

Question 4

The first piecec of legislation treating Wales as seperate from England since 1542

Answer 4

The Sunday Closing Act 1881

Question 5

The only Welsh Prime Minister

Answer 5

David Lloyd George

Question 6

The Great War

Answer 6

1914 - 1918

Question 7

% of the Welsh male population in conscription (WW 1)

Answer 7

21,52%

Question 8

Two important figures that took part in the 1st WW

Answer 8

Hedd Wyn (Ellis Humphrey Evans)

Edward Thomas

Question 9

(DATE & AUTHOR)
“Mametz Wood”

Answer 9

1916
Christopher David Williams RBA

Question 10

(DATE + WHO)
Established Urdd Gobaith Cymru

Answer 10

1922
Ifan ab Owen

Question 11

What is Urdd Gobaith Cymru (est. 1922)

Answer 11

Welsh medium youth movement, cultural activities (lit, trad, relig, lang)

Question 12

(DATE + WHO)
Establishment of Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru

Answer 12

1925, Pwllheli

Sanders Lewis

Question 13

3 things Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru wanted

Answer 13

-keep Wales Welsh-speaking
-Welsh as the official language
-home rule

Question 14

(WHO + DATE)
Fire yn Lly^n

Answer 14

1936

Sanders Lewis, L Valentine, D.J. Williams

Question 15

Describe Fire yn Lly^n

Answer 15

building set on fire, S. Lewis, L. Valentine, D.J. Williams claimed responsibility

refused to speak English

exposed political bankrupcy

Question 16

(DATE + CONSEQUENCES)

The Welsh courts act

Answer 16

1942
Welsh might be used in courts, the court should pay for interpreters

(same as with Greek, Arabic)

Question 17

Communist or socialist sympathisers

Answer 17

-South Wales Miners’ Federation
-Communist Party

Question 18

(DATE)
Who were Bevin Boys?

Answer 18

1943,
10% of Welsh 18yo conscripts sent to work in coal mines
(labour shortages)

Question 19

(DATE + PLACE)
Three Nights Blitz

Answer 19

19-21.02.1941

Swansea

Question 20

Operation Pied Pipier was…

Answer 20

evacuation of children to rural areas of the UK (a lot to Wales)

Question 21

By 1945 the War Office had taken over…..

Answer 21

10% of land in Wales

Question 22

Areas in Wales that became a permanent military training ground

Answer 22

Mynydd Epynt, Breconshire

Question 23

The Falklands War

Answer 23

2 April - 14 June 1982