Year 9 History EQ1 Terms, Dates & People

Imperial War Museum

Museum dedicated to researching and explaining Britain and her Empire’s experience of war.

Historical Silence

The omission of a group from the historical record. Trouiliot gave 4 reasons for this.

Archive

A museum’s collection of objects and records from which exhibitions are created.

Western Front

The fighting that took place in Belgium and Northern France.

Eastern Front

The fighting that took place in Russia, the Balkans and the Dardanelles.

Middle Eastern/Mesopotamian Front

The fighting that took place in modern Iraq, Arabia, Syria and Israel.

East African Front

The fighting that took place in modern Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambique.

Home Front

Refers to the efforts made in Britain to supply the British armies fighting overseas.

1914

Schlieffen Plan

1915

Gallipoli Landings

1916

Battle of the Somme

1916

Arab Revolt Begins

1917

TE Lawrence captures Aqaba

1917

USA declares war on Germany

1917

Plans for IWM (Imperial War Museum) approved by the UK Government

1918

Communists sign a peace treaty with the Germans

1918

Spring Offensive

1918

Allenby Captures Damascus

1918

100 Days Offensive

1918

WW1 Armistice

1919

Versailles Treaty

1920

IMW (Imperial War Museum) opens at Crystal Palace in South London

1936

IWM (Imperial War Museum) moves to its current site at Bedlam Hospital in South London

Stuart Hastie

Scottish Tank Commander on the Western Front.

Liu Dien Chen

One of five Chinese labourers on the Western Front to be given the UK Army’s Meritorious Service Medal.

Alfred Cameron

Australian soldier who died at Gallipoli

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Ottoman general at Gallipoli. Later, first President of Turkey.

TE Lawrence of Arabia

British Officer who persuaded the Arabs to revolt in 1916.

Faisal al-Hussein

Commander of Arab Soldiers. Later, first King of Iraq

Jan Smuts

South African commander of British Troops in East Africa

Bayume Husen

East African soldier in the German Army.