The name given to the main line of trenches in France
What is the Western Front
100
The number of Indigenous Australians who are thought to have fought in WWI
What is about 1000
100
The main reason why trench warfare was widely used in WWI
What is massive advancements in technology and weaponry, but very few advancements in mobility and defences such as body armour, armoured vehicles, tanks, etc
100
The name given to compulsory enlistment in the armed forces.
What is conscription. This means that if you are conscripted you have no choice but to join the armed forces.
100
The name of the meeting where the Treaty was signed
What is the Paris Peace Conference
200
At least one of the names of the places where Australians fought in Europe (specific place names)
What is the Somme, Fromelles, Poziers, Amiens, Passchendaele, Ypres, Bullecourt, Messines
200
The reason why we don't know the exact number of Indigenous Australians who fought
What is they often signed up under false names as they weren't legally allowed to enlist
200
The German word for submarine
What is u-boat
200
How many times Australia voted to have conscription during WWI
What is 2 times (1916 and 1917, both times voted down)
200
The number of treaties that were signed in total, and the countries they related to
What is 5 (Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey [Ottoman Empire])
300
The country where the Battle of Meggido (where 70 000 Turkish POWs were taken) was fought
What is Palestine (modern day Israel/Palestinian territories)
300
What Indigenous Australians often referred to it feeling like when they returned home after serving
What is "back to black"
300
The first chemical or substance that was used in poison gas
What is chlorine
300
Some of the ways women contributed to the war effort (at least 3)
What is:
- Nursing
- Factory work
- Buying war bonds
- Knitting/making clothes for soldiers
- Sending care packages to the front lines
- Volunteering to raise money and support for the war effort
- Doing some of the jobs men were no longer doing
- Rationing
- Donating to the war effort
- Caring for returned soldiers
300
The dates of the start and end of the peace negotiations
What is 12 January 1919 - 20 January 1920
400
The countries fighting on the Eastern Front in WWI (not including Germany)
What is Russia, Austria-Hungary, Romania, Italy, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire
400
Some of the major issues Indigenous Australians dealt with when they returned from WWI (at least 3)
What is racial discrimination; no recognition; negative attitudes; weren't allowed to march on Anzac Day; weren't allowed to enter RSL clubs; same things as non-Indigenous people (PTSD, trauma, injury, disability etc)
400
The name of a German airship
What is a zeppelin
400
It happened to German-Australians in Australia during WWI
What is internment (i.e imprisonment without trial), surveillance, persecution and/or deportation at the end of the war.
400
What the Treaty of Versailles eventually caused and why
What is WWII, because the punishments on Germany were so severe which led to increased nationalism and resentment in Germany (allowing Hitler's party to gain popularity)
500
The year the USA joined the war, and the main reason why
What is 1917, because Germany was practicing "unrestricted submarine warfare", bombing civilian ships carrying US citizens in the Atlantic Ocean (notably, the Lusitania)
500
Some of the civil rights that Indigenous Australians gained in the mid 20th century
What is the right to vote, the right to be counted in the census, the right to public education, citizenship, the right to anti-discrimination protections
500
The year tanks first appeared in WWI and what battlefield this happened on
What is 1916, the Battle of the Somme
500
The definition of a war bond and what it was used for
What is a debt investment in which an investor (the general public) loans money to an entity (the government), which borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a variable or fixed interest rate. in WWI, the money was used to finance the war effort.
500
The 6 main outcomes of the Treaty
What is:
Guilt - Germany
Armies - Germany to cut down on armies, lose naval ships, lose military aircraft
Reparations - Germany to pay back 6600 pounds
Germany lost land - All colonies and Alsace-Lorraine lost
League of Nations - set up
Extra points - Austria, Hungary and Germany not allowed to ally with each other or be part of the same empire