Battles
Shellfire reduced this battlefield to a vast bog of bodies, water-filled shell craters, and mud.
Passchendaele
A serious condition that results from your feet being wet too long.
Trench Foot
This country, as a member of the British Empire, was automatically at war when Britain declared war on Germany.
Canada
This weapon could perform a deadly sweep on the battlefield
Machine Guns
The assassination of this man is said to be one of the causes for WW1
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
In the summer of 1916 the British launched the largest battle on the Western Front, against German lines. This offensive was one of the bloodiest in human history.
Somme
A moderately serious disease transmitted by body lice.
Trench Fever
This was an agreement between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy
Triple Alliance
The first large-scale use of this lethal weapon was by the Germans on 22 April 1915 during the Battle of Second Ypres.
Gas
This is an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation
Nationalism
The main combatants in this battle were the four divisions of the Canadian Corps in the First Army, against three divisions of the German 6th Army.
Vimy Ridge
A feared saying for the troops in World War 1.
Over The Top
August 1, 1914, Germany declares war on this member of the Triple Entente
Russia
The British turned to this new technology as one way to cross No Man’s Land and break through the enemy trench system.
Tanks
German, British and French officials gathered inside a railroad dining car in a dark forest north of Paris and signed an armistice to end World War I on this date
November 11, 1918
French forces along a 20-kilometer front, stretching across the Meuse River, would become this longest conflict of World War I.
Verdun
The narrow, muddy, treeless stretch of land, characterized by numerous shell holes, that separated German and Allied trenches during the First World War.
No Man's Land
This country was the first to be invaded by Germany in 1914.
Belgium
Using this machine reduced your life expectancy to an average 3 weeks
Planes
This city was devastated on 6 December 1917 when two ships collided in the city's harbour, one of them a munitions ship loaded with explosives bound for the battlefields of the First World War.
Halifax
It was the first major battle fought by Canadian troops in the Great War.
Ypres
This agricultural fencing material, was used throughout World War 1 as a battlefield obstacle.
Barbed Wire
Western Front battles were mostly fought in Belgium and this country.
France
Germany was the first country to employ this type of sea war machine
U-Boats
This was the blanket term applied to those soldiers who broke down under the strain of war.
Shell shock