Nature of Modern Warfare
This long, dug-in defensive system defined much of WWI fighting.
What are trenches?
The Gallipoli campaign began in 1915 in which nation?
The Ottoman Empire
The majority of the trench system was located in this country?
What is France?
The country where the vast majority of fighting on the Eastern Front took place.
What is Russia?
Australia entered the war as a part of this Empire.
What is the British Empire?
This rapid-fire weapon made mass infantry charges extremely deadly.
What is the machine-gun?
These Australian and New Zealand troops formed a key part of the Allied landings.
Who are the ANZACs?
Germany’s plan to defeat France quickly required invading this neutral country.
What is Belgium?
These two empires formed the Central Powers fighting Russia in the east.
What are Germany and Austria-Hungary?
Australians quickly annexed this German territory in 1914.
What is Papua New-Guinea?
First widely used at Ypres in 1915, this gas caused choking and blindness.
What is chlorine gas?
This Ottoman commander later became the founder of modern Türkiye.
Who is Mustafa Kemal Atatürk?
This 1916 battle produced massive casualties and is associated with “lions led by donkeys.”
What is the Battle of The Somme?
The hopelessly ineffective Tsar of Russia decided to take supreme command of his army.
Who is Tsar Nicholas II?
The year that the last Australian WW1 veteran died.
What is 2011?
This nation was the first to deploy tanks in combat during the Battle of the Somme in 1916.
What is Britain/UK?
The Allies aimed to seize this waterway to reach Russia through the Black Sea.
What is the Dardanelles?
This 1916 battle included the French command phrase “They shall not pass.”
What is Verdun?
The man who led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and eventually withdrew Russia from the war.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
The Belgian town that still celebrates ANZAC day because of the heroic soldiers who defended it.
What is Villers-Bretonneux?
The weapon introduced by Americans upon their entry to the war in 1917, which the Germans tried to get banned because it inflicted "unnecessary suffering".
What is the shotgun?
This British political leader strongly supported the campaign and later suffered political consequences for its failure.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This final German offensive in 1918 aimed to win the war before American forces fully arrived.
What is the Spring Offensive?
This treaty ended Russia’s involvement in WWI in 1918.
What is the treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
This Australian commander became the leader of Allied forces on the Western Front in 1918.
Who is Sir John Monash?