WW1 Flashcards
4 causes of ww1?
Nationalism- your county’s better then others
Imperialism- desire to conquer colonies
Militarism- attempt to build a strong army
Alliances- eg triple alliance the want to help
Why did Australian troops go to Gallipoli 1915?
From breakout of war in 1914, thousands of Australian men volunteered to fight the oncoming war
What is ANZAC?
A soldier in the Australian and New Zeland Army corps
Trench foot
Painful condition of feet caused my long immersion in cold water or mud marked by blackening and death of surface tissue
Where did Australians fight on the western front ?
Leper, Belgium
Zonnebeke, Belgium
Ploegsteert, Belgium
Fromeelles, France
Tomb of the unknown soldier
Body of an unknown Australian soldier recovered in France was moved to Australia, the hall of memory 1993, buried in a coffin , a bayonet, wattle and soil from France battlefield on tomb
Hun
A derogatory nickname to describe German army
Ottoman empire
Participated in ww1 as a central power
Gallipoli 1915
Also known as the data nellies campaign , battle of Gallipoli, the battle of canal kale
W.M Hughes
Australia’s longest serving pm till 1957
Western front
The name the Germans have to a series of trenches running 700km from Belgian coast to Swiss border
Armistice
An agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting (truce)
Demobilisation
Standing down a nations armed forces
Pacifists
Person who believes war is wrong and unjustifiable
Beersheba
Battle was faught 1917 when egypts attacked at Beersheba
Somme river
Battle of he first ww by the British and French against Germans.
Censorship
When the government decides why or not to show the people
Ww1 technology (Germans)
First to give gas warfare serious development
A home guns
A dominant weapon of ww1 battlefields.
Howitzer
A cannon which fires a shell
Conscription
A compulsory enlistment for armed wars
Pandemic
A disease prevalent over a whole country - world
Epidemic
A widespread of an infectious disease in a community (smaller then countries)
Aborigines related to war
Over 1000 fought in ww1. Were treated poorly prior to war at war treated equally after war treated unequally with prejudice, discrimination
