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Flashcards by Rawan Ibrahim, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rawan Ibrahim
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| What does attrition mean? | A gradual wearing down by continual loss or damage. |
| What was the triple alliance? | A defensive alliance formed by Germany, Austria- Hungary and Italy in 1882. |
| Why did Germany seek for allies? | It feared that France would attack it as payback for their loss in the Franco-Prussian War of 1871. |
| What happened in 1894? | France formed the dual entente with Russia. |
| What was the triple entente? | An alliance that formed between France, Britain and Russia in 1907. |
| What was a major consequence of the alliance system? | The increasing demand to increase the amount of money being spent on armaments. This resulted in many countires across Europe increasing their spendings on military development. |
| What did France and Britain argue over? | Colonial borders especiLly in Africa |
| What was the final step that resulted in war? | The assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand who was heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary. |
| How and when did he die? | He died on the 28th of June, 1914 when a member of a Serbian organising called the black hand killed him and his wife. |
| How did this provoke the war? | Due to the death of the archduke, the Austrian government demanded a greater role in Serbian affairs. Germany backed them up and Russia backed Serbia up. |
| Who won the election campaign and how? | The labor had won the 1914 election. Their leader, Andrew fisher delivered his line that they would support Britain 'to the last man and shilling.' |
| Why had the Australian army set high standards? | Because there were many men willing to enlist so they would set their standards high to pick the best of them. |
| Why did that change? | As the war kept going on, more men were needed so the standards were changed. |
| What were the age standards? | Men under 18 needed parental permission but many joined with and without it. The highest age acceptable was 38 but many lied about being younger to join. |
| What were the early reasons for enlisting into the war? | Patriotism, adventure, peer pressure. |
| What was patriotism? | The belief among men to go fight for their mother country, Britain. |
| What was the adventure reason? | Many men lived simple lives and enlisting into the army provided an opportunity for an exciting experience and to travel to france. |
| What was peer pressure? | This reason played a major role in men's intentions to join war. They joined the war in fear of letting their friends down I felt they did anything else. They also felt like women would not be interested in them I felt they didn't join the war. |
| What was the commitment reason? | After the enthusiam of joint the war wore off from the realise of the number of death rate, many felt like they owed it to the dead soldiers to go and finish their job. |
| What was the propaganda reason? | Many schools encouraged their boys to join the army, many even had competitions between each other to view the highest number of boys who enlisted in the army. The government also got involved and put up posters to manipulate the emotions of people and make them join. |
| What was the white feather? | Women who found men healthy enough to join the army but had not yet done so, handed them a feather to signify them a son a coward. Many me not gave in to the sachem but many did no to join since they didn't want to fight for soemthing they didn't believe in. Many also felt their job in australia was too important to let go. |
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