Basic Facts
Another name for WWI.
What is 'The Great War'?
This famous but doomed campaign in the Mediterranean became the birthplace of the ANZAC Legend.
What is the Gallipoli Campaign?
The King of England during WWI.
Who is King George V?
Fixed to the end of a rifle, this weapon was used to skewer enemy soldiers from a safe distance.
What are bayonets?
First implemented by the Germans as an aircraft to spy on the enemy and drop bombs, these slow-moving aircraft are filled with helium or hydrogen gas.
What are blimps?
The organized spreading of information in order to persuade people to adopt a certain position.
What is propaganda?
The hour, day, month and year that WWI ended.
The 11th hour of the 11th day on the 11th month of 1918.
The name given to the battle line that stretched across northern France and Belgium.
What is the Western Front?
After this event, people seized control of the government in Russia and immediately set about negotiating peace with Germany.
What is 'the Russian Revolution'?
This weapon was used by the Germans. It had a range of up to 130 feet, and engulfed its target in flames.
What are flamethrowers?
This device detected enemy tunneling.
What is the Geophone?
This word describes feelings of loyalty and pride in one's own nation
What is 'patriotism'?
The year that WWI started.
What is 1914?
This man was prime minister of Australia during WWI.
William Hughes
These nations made up The Central Powers (known as the Triple Alliance)
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire?
These animals carried messages between headquarters and the front lines.
What are pigeons?
This vehicle was developed as a way to traverse muddy terrain and break through the trenches, whilst withstanding gunfire with its heavy metal chassis.
What is the tank?
This term is used to describe warfare in which opposing sides try to 'wear down' the other over a period of time.
What is a 'war of attrition'?
What is 'trench warfare'?
The name given to this sophisticated German military strategy, which envisioned the conquest of France in time for Christmas 1914.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
These three countries made up the 'Triple Entent'.
Great Britain, France and Russia.
This harsh chemical caused soldier's skin and eyes to burn.
What is mustard gas?
This clever invention was used to help pilots quickly do and undo their aviation jackets.
What are zippers?
This word describes the belief that a nation should maintain a strong military force, and use that force to promote it's interests at home and overseas.
What is 'militarism'?
This important document officially ended the First World War.
What is the 'Treaty of Versailles'?
The name of the organisation of which Gavrilo Princip was a member.
What is 'the Black Hand'?
This event sparked the beginning of WWI
What is the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Identify six weapons that were used for the first time during WWI.
Barbed wire, poisonous gas, tanks, machine guns, flamethrowers, steel helmets, the geophone, flare pistols, depth charges, anti-aircraft guns, interrupter gear
This device was invented in coal mines, but later used on the front lines to protect soldiers from gas attacks.
What are gas masks?
The acronym ANZAC stands for:
Australian and New Zealand Army Corps