Terms
A relationship formed between countries for mutual benefit.
What is an alliance?
The 3 core members of the Triple Entente.
What are Britain, France and Russia?
The first place where the Australian Imperial Force fought.
What is 'the Dardanelles/Gallipoli'?
What developed by late 1914 on the Western Front when both sides began to build trenches.
What is a 'stalemate'?
The number (to the nearest thousand) of Anzac casualties during the 8-month Gallipoli campaign.
What is 26,000?
Devotion to and support for your country.
What is patriotism?
The head of the British Navy who was in charge of the Allied attack on Turkey.
Who is 'Winston Churchill'?
The Battle of Beersheba in 1917 was famous for being the last battle of this kind.
What is 'cavalry' (on horses)?
The number (to the nearest thousand) of Australians who became Prisoners of War of the Turkish and German troops during WWI.
What is 4000?
The deadly disease which spread across the world and was facilitated by the end of World War I.
What is the 'Spanish Flu'?
People who objected to military service and opposed the war, often because of their religious beliefs.
What are 'conscientious objectors'?
The royal who was assassinated in 1914, sparking the crisis which led to the outbreak of war.
Who is 'Archduke Franz Ferdinand'?
The battle which Australian forces did NOT fight in out of: Fromelles, the Somme, Tannenberg and Passchendaele.
What is Tannenberg?
The 6890 individuals who were detained in Australian internment camps, with no right to trial, jury or information.
What are 'enemy aliens'?
The organisation which was formed at the end of World War to assist veterans, although they initially denied membership to Indigenous ex-servicemen.
What is the 'Returned and Services League' (RSL)?
What is 'total war'?
The country which was the first to use gas as a weapon in August 1914.
What is France?
After requested by the German government, this came into effect at 11am on 11 November 1918.
What is an 'armistice' (or ceasefire)?
This organisation, run largely by women, sent food parcels to Australian Prisoners of War and provided assistance to families of soldiers.
What is the 'Australian Red Cross Society'?
This was introduced into Australia in 1915 in order to pay for the cost of war.
What is 'income tax'?
What the Germans gave to Austria-Hungary in 1914 to represent their unconditional support for them.
What is a 'blank cheque'?
The first country to formally withdraw from fighting in World War I.
What is Russia?
The amount of time it took (to the nearest minute) for the ANZACs to win at the Battle of Hamel in July 1918.
What is 93 minutes?
Debates over this issue in 1916-17 divided Australian society.
What is 'conscription'?
This rose by approximately 70% across Australian families from 1914 to 1920, largely due to the social stresses caused by war.
What is the 'divorce rate'?