Causes and Alliances
This alliance linked Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy before the outbreak of war.
What is the Triple Alliance?
This country declared war on Serbia on 28 July 1914, setting the crisis in motion.
What is Austria-Hungary?
This term describes the shattered, cratered zone between opposing trenches that troops crossed during an attack.
What is no man's land?
This acronym names the combined Australian and New Zealand force that landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915.
What is ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps)?
Governments produced posters and films using this tool to persuade citizens to enlist and support the war.
What is propaganda?
This ‘-ism’ describes the arms race and glorification of military strength across Europe before 1914.
What is militarism?
This German plan aimed to defeat France quickly by advancing through Belgium before turning east to face Russia.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
First used on a large scale at Ypres in 1915, this weapon caused horrific injuries and widespread terror.
What is poison (Chlorine) gas?
Australian and New Zealand troops came ashore at this cove on 25 April 1915.
What is Anzac cove?
With so many men away fighting, women increasingly took on this kind of work in factories, farms and transport.
What is paid/industrial wartime work?
This 1914 assassination in Sarajevo is considered the immediate trigger of the war.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (by Gavrilo Princip)?
Britain entered the war largely because Germany violated the neutrality of this country.
What is Belgium?
Introduced by the British at the Somme in 1916, this armoured vehicle was designed to cross trenches and break the deadlock.
What is the tank?
This date is commemorated each year in Australia and New Zealand to honour those who served and died at Gallipoli and beyond.
What is Anzac Day (25 April)?
This divisive issue was put to the Australian public in two failed referendums, in 1916 and 1917.
What is conscription?
This web of secret agreements meant a conflict between two nations could quickly drag in many others.
What is the alliance system?
This term describes the rapid mass movement and preparation of armies that made diplomatic backdown almost impossible in July 1914.
What is mobilisation?
Long periods standing in cold, waterlogged trenches left many soldiers with this painful foot condition.
What is trench foot?
The Gallipoli campaign aimed to seize this strait to open a supply route to Russia and force this empire out of the war.
What is the Dardanelles (and the Ottoman Empire)?
This term describes a government directing an entire nation's economy, industry and population towards the war effort.
What is total war?
This term describes the fierce competition between European powers for colonies and global influence before 1914.
What is imperialism?
By early August 1914, these two rival blocs of nations were formally at war with each other.
What are the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance/Central Powers?
This term describes the static, defensive style of fighting in which opposing trench lines barely moved for years.
What is stalemate (trench warfare)?
This term describes the set of values — courage, mateship, endurance and sacrifice — said to have been forged at Gallipoli and central to Australian national identity.
What is the Anzac legend (Anzac spirit)?
Wartime shortages of food and resources often led governments to introduce this system of controlled distribution.
What is rationing?