World War I - Fill in the Blank Flashcards

A set of fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering key concepts, terms, and events from World War I to help review for the exam.

World War I began in .

1914

The Armistice ending World War I was signed on .

11 November 1918 at 11 a.m.

The four MAIN factors that contributed to World War I are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and .

Nationalism

The two major pre-war alliances were the Triple Alliance and the Triple .

Entente

The Western Front trenches consisted of four types: front-line, support, reserve and trenches.

communication

The ship sunk by a German U-boat on 7 May 1915 was the .

Lusitania

The Schlieffen Plan relied on neutral not resisting a German crossing into France.

Belgium

Australia entered World War I as a to Britain.

Dominion

The Gallipoli campaign took place on the Peninsula in Turkey.

Gallipoli

On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, British deaths were over .

19,000

The policy of sinking enemy ships to cut off supplies at sea is known as warfare.

unrestricted submarine

The Armistice ended fighting at .

11 a.m. on 11 November 1918

The official treaty that ended World War I was the Treaty of .

Versailles

The Anzac legend highlights values such as courage, , and endurance.

mateship

During World War I, Australian women worked in factories to support the war effort.

munitions

First Nations Australians who enlisted faced restrictions and were not counted as Australian .

citizens

The government established the Department in 1917 to care for veterans.

Repatriation

The League of Nations aimed to promote and international cooperation.

peace and international cooperation

The Armistice required Germany to surrender , and naval vessels, and return prisoners of war.

artillery and prison ers of war

The first Australian commander of the AIF was General Monash.

John

Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in (city).

Sarajevo

The term 'anarchism' is the belief that all should be abolished.

government and laws

Anzac stands for Australian and New Zealand Army .

Corps

The sinking of the Lusitania helped push the United States toward entering the war after attacks on ships carrying civilians.

American

The battle that began on 8 August 1918 and was dubbed the 'Black Day for the German Army' was the .

Battle of Amiens

The poem Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen describes a gas attack; its title is et decorum est.

Dulce

In April 1915, Germany introduced poisonous gas; one of the first was gas.

chlorine

The Schlieffen Plan assumed Russia would mobilise in at least weeks.

six

The term 'enemy aliens' referred to people in Australia of descent.

German and Austro-Hungarian

Theatres of war included the Middle East, the Western Front, the Eastern Front in Europe, the North Sea, and .

northern Africa

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Australian War Memorial honours the soldier.

unknown

On Remembrance Day, red are worn to remember those who died in war.

poppies

The 1919 Paris Peace Conference led to the formation of the of Nations.

League