WW1 Causes
This term describes the belief that countries should maintain strong armies and be prepared to use them.
What is militarism?
Why is it important that we do not identify 1 event as the cause of WW1?
Because it oversimplifies the events that lead to and the cause of WW1.
Soldiers fought from long defensive ditches known as this type of warfare.
What is trench warfare?
The agreement that stopped fighting on 11 November 1918.
What is the Armistice?
More than 3,000 Australian women served overseas in this wartime role.
What is nursing?
Agreements between countries to support one another in times of war.
What are alliances?
Australia entered WWI because this country declared war on Germany.
What is Britain?
A psychological condition caused by the trauma and stress of warfare.
What is shell shock?
The city where peace talks were held in 1919.
Paris (Versailles)
This government scheme provided land to returned soldiers and expected them to farm and live off the land, after WWI.
Soldier Settlement Scheme
This Serbian nationalist assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
Australians landed on this peninsula on 25 April 1915.
What is Gallipoli?
Australia's bloodiest 24 hours occurred at this 1916 battle.
What is Fromelles?
The three major leaders who dominated the Paris Peace Talks were from which 3 countries?
What is France, Britian and the US?
Indigenous Australians faced this major disadvantage after returning from the war despite serving their country.
Discrimination and/or exclusion from veterans' benefits
The diplomatic crisis that followed the assassination and helped trigger WWI.
What is the July Crisis?
This battle included the famous Australian Light Horse charge.
What is Beersheba?
Name one common challenge soldiers faced in the trenches.
What is mud, disease, rats, poor sanitation, or harsh weather?
This treaty officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This annual commemorations began in 1916 to remember those who landed at Gallipoli.
ANZAC Day
The acronym MAIN stands for these four long-term causes of WWI.
What are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism?
German General Ludendorff called this battle the "Black Day of the German Army."
What is Amiens?
Name three technologies that changed warfare during WWI.
What are machine guns, tanks, poison gas, aircraft, or submarines?
Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles became known by this name.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
A statement that forced Germany to accept responsibility for starting World War I
Germany's invasion of this neutral country as part of the Schlieffen Plan led Britain to declare war on Germany on 4 August 1914.
Belgium