Lesson Y9-U03-L06

1918 Victory, Cost and the Home Front Quiz: KS3 History, Unit 16

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Lesson Y9-U03-L06, 1918 Victory, Cost and the Home Front: 20 multiple choice questions for the KS3 History (National Curriculum), Unit 16: Year 9: WW1 Warfare, written with Revision Ninja.

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The 20 questions

  1. In which month and year did Germany launch its last great Spring Offensive?

    • March 1918
    • November 1917
    • June 1916
    • August 1914

  2. What was the Allied counter-attack from August 1918 called?

    • The Kaiserschlacht and its winter retreat
    • The Somme Offensive
    • The Race to the Sea
    • The Hundred Days Offensive

  3. At what time did the Armistice come into force on 11 November 1918?

    • 11am
    • 11pm
    • 3pm
    • 6am

  4. Where was the Armistice signed?

    • In a palace in Berlin on the morning of the 9th of the month
    • On a warship anchored off the coast of Belgium at dawn
    • In a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne, France
    • In a hospital tent behind the front line near Ypres in winter

  5. What happened to the German Kaiser in November 1918?

    • He was elected prime minister of Britain
    • He abdicated and fled
    • He was crowned emperor of all Europe
    • He led the army into Paris in triumph

  6. What is the key difference between an armistice and a peace treaty?

    • An armistice is a ceasefire, while a peace treaty is the lasting settlement
    • An armistice is signed only by the losers, while a peace treaty is signed only by the winners
    • An armistice is a trade deal, while a peace treaty is a military alliance
    • An armistice is a permanent peace, while a peace treaty is a temporary ceasefire

  7. Roughly how many British and Empire war dead were there in WW1?

    • About 9 million, a figure that counted every soldier in the world
    • About 900,000 or more
    • About 9,000 soldiers, all of them lost at sea in a single battle
    • About 90,000 soldiers, mostly lost in the first week of the war

  8. Roughly how many people died in total across all sides, military and civilian?

    • About 170,000
    • About 1.7 million
    • About 170 million
    • About 17 million

  9. Roughly how many British soldiers were wounded in WW1?

    • About 1.7 million
    • About 17,000 soldiers across the whole of the war
    • About 17 million soldiers from every country in Europe
    • About 170,000 soldiers across the whole war

  10. By how much did Britain's national debt rise during the war?

    • It did not rise at all
    • By about a tenth
    • More than tenfold
    • By about one half

  11. When was conscription introduced in Britain?

    • 1918
    • 1916
    • 1914
    • 1901

  12. What did women's war work in Britain include?

    • Only making uniforms in workshops at home
    • Only running canteens behind the front line in France
    • Munitions factories, transport and work on the land
    • Only serving as nurses in the trenches of the Somme

  13. Why was rationing introduced in Britain during the war?

    • To share scarce food fairly after U-boats sank food ships
    • To encourage families to move from the towns to the countryside
    • To stop civilians from eating while soldiers were hungry
    • To pay off the national debt by selling food abroad

  14. What did the Defence of the Realm Act (DORA) do?

    • It banned all newspapers from printing any war news at all
    • It controlled many aspects of daily life at home during the war
    • It gave every soldier the right to vote at the front line
    • It set the rules for peace talks with Germany after the Armistice

  15. What is 'total war'?

    • War in which every battle ends in a complete victory for one side
    • War fought only between navies on the open sea in the North Atlantic
    • War that needs the whole nation's effort, not just the soldiers
    • War fought only with weapons that are never used again after the battle

  16. What happens at 11am on Remembrance Day in Britain?

    • A ceremonial gun salute fired from the Tower of London
    • A national parade through London with the army band
    • A two-minute silence to remember those who died
    • A minute's bell ringing at every football ground

  17. What was the purpose of the 1915 recruitment poster in Source A?

    • To warn families of the dangers of the German navy
    • To shame and persuade men into volunteering for the army
    • To ask women to give up their jobs for men returning home
    • To explain the rules of rationing to the public

  18. Why is Source B useful for showing the limits of what Source A tells us?

    • It was written in 1915 by a recruitment officer for the army
    • It proves that every man who saw the poster enlisted at once in 1915
    • It shows the posters were banned by the government after 1915
    • It shows real social pressure to enlist, but was recorded decades later

  19. What was a 'cenotaph'?

    • A tank used to carry wounded men off the battlefield at night
    • An empty tomb war memorial honouring the dead buried elsewhere
    • A military hospital built in a French forest for wounded soldiers
    • A medal awarded to soldiers wounded in the trenches of France

  20. Why did some Germans later claim their army was 'never really defeated'?

    • Because the Armistice was signed in a German palace in Berlin
    • Because fighting stopped before Allied armies entered Germany
    • Because the Kaiser was crowned again as emperor in Berlin that year
    • Because the Germans won the final battle at Verdun in 1918

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