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Year 11 Revision Questions

2. The Beginning of the First World War
  1. What month and year did the First World War begin?
  2. Why did people think the war would be over by Christmas?
  3. Where was the heaviest fighting during the war?
  4. Where else was there fighting during the first world war? (list as many as possible)
  5. Why wasn't the war over by Christmas?
  6. What was the name of the German plan that hoped to avoid splitting the German forces?
  7. What was meant to happen in the plan?
  8. What really happened instead?
  9. List what you would find in a cross-section diagram of a trench.
  10. What was it called when neither side could break through the enemy lines?

Email Mrs R. March the answers at:- history@stbedes.ngfl.ac.uk
Or hand them in to be marked.
Email any revision problems or queries.

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