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  • What year did WW1 end?
    1918
  • The best-known military feature of WW1 was [blank] warfare
    Trench warfare
  • Modern-day Turkey used to be the centre of which WW1-era empire?
    Ottoman Empire
  • Which country is Gallipoli in?
    Turkey / Ottoman Empire
  • Name one of the new military technologies that made WW1 so deadly
    Grenades, planes, tanks, submarines, machine guns, gas
  • Who were Germany's 2 main allies in WW1?
    Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire
  • How "old" was the nation of Australia when WW1 started? (i.e. how many years since Australia became a nation?)
    13
  • Name one reason why we don't have many letters etc from First Nations soldiers
    First Nations enlistment bans, low literacy
  • Which date commemorates the end of WW1?
    Remembrance Day - November 11
  • Explain why trench warfare caused so many casualties
    As soon as soldiers came up from the trenches, they were exposed to machine guns and other attacks
  • Name any modern-day country in Europe that didn't yet exist in WW1
    Ireland, Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Czechia, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland......
  • What year did WW1 start?
    1914
  • How many soldiers died in WW1: 1 million, 5 million, 10 million?
    10 million
  • Name one job women had to take up during WW1, due to so many men leaving for war?
    Any kind of factory, manufacturing, building, industrial work
  • What type of battlefield was the Gallipoli campaign fought on? Beach, mountain, river, forest, city?
    Beach
  • Who were the big 3 European allies of Australia in WW1?
    UK, France, Russia
  • Which battlefront was in France - the Western Front or the Eastern Front?
    Western