GCSE History Knowledge Test
UNIT 3:2 The part played by the British on the Western Front
The British
Expeditionary
Force
Western
Front
Battle of the
Mons
Schlieffen
Plan
Trench
Warfare
Battle of
Ypres
Casualties
Breakthrough
Stalemate
Attrition
Battle of
Verdun
Machine
Guns
No Man’s
land
Gas
Artillery
Shells
Creeping
Barrage
Tanks
Battle of the
Somme
General Haig
Allies
The British Army sent to the Western Front during the First World War (the
BEF).
The name applied to the fighting zone in France and Flanders, where the
British, French, Belgian and (towards the end of the war) the American armies
faced that of Germany.
The first major action of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the First World
War.
A plan in which Germany and her allies would invade France through Belgium.
With help from her allies, Germany would have just enough men to beat France
in a few months.
A type of land warfare using occupied fighting lines consisting largely of
trenches, in which troops are significantly protected from the enemy's small
arms fire and are substantially sheltered from artillery.
Battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed
because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans
introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery.
Soldiers killed, wounded or captured in battle.
To pierce the enemy defences and push through their trench system.
The situation on the Western Front when neither side could break through the
enemy’s defences.
A gradual process of wearing down, weakening, or destroying the enemy.
A battle in World War I (1916); in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I
the German offensive was stopped.
New Weapon of WWI: An automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession
for as long as the trigger is pressed.
Disputed ground between the front lines or trenches of two opposing armies.
New Weapon of WWI: various toxic gases, especially those used in chemical
warfare to kill or incapacitate on inhalation or contact (such as chlorine).
New Weapon of WWI: ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing
containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun.
Artillery fire moving slowly forward in front of advancing soldiers.
New Weapon of WWI: a heavy armoured fighting vehicle carrying guns and
moving on a continuous articulated metal track.
A battle, which lasted from July to November 1916, where more than a million
British, French and German soldiers died.
A senior officer of the British Army. During the First World War he commanded
the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) on the Western Front from late 1915 until
the end of the war.
Included Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States.