Year 9

What do the stories of the 'often forgotten armies' reveal about the Western Front?

Year 9

What do the stories of the 'often forgotten armies' reveal about the Western Front?

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will pull everything wehave learnt about the 'often forgotten armies' together and then learn how to answer our enquiry question: what do the stories of the 'often forgotten armies' reveal about the Western Front?

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5 Questions

Q1.
Where was Mike Mountain Horse from?
Algeria
America
Correct answer: Canada
India
Q2.
Why did Mike Mountain Horse sign up to fight?
He wanted to look good in front of his friends
He was forced to my a Christian missionary
To get good wages
Correct answer: To revenge his brother Albert
Q3.
Which battles did Mike Mountain Horse take part in?
Cambrai and Somme
Correct answer: Cambrai and Vimy Ridge
Somme and Verdun
Verdun and Passchendaele
Q4.
Tanks were first used successfully in a massed attack at the Battle of Cambrai. What could this reveal about the Western Front?
Correct answer: New technology was being used in the First World War
Soldiers were no longer important
Soldiers were not always supported or cared for properly
The British were in trouble in 1917
Q5.
George Strangling Wolf buried a piece of his flesh in the mud of northern France. What could this reveal about the Western Front?
Correct answer: Different cultures existed side-by-side on the Western Front
George Strangling Wolf was stupid.
Soldiers were not always supported or cared for properly
The Western Front could be a horrible place to be.

5 Questions

Q1.
When was the First World War?
1900-1914
Correct answer: 1914-1918
1918-1939
1939-1945
Q2.
Name the 4 places our ‘often forgotten armies’ came from
Britain, France, Australia, Canada
Correct answer: India, Algeria, Canada and China
Indochina, Algeria, Canada and China
Russia, France, Germany, Belgium
Q3.
Whose story reveals the importance of technology on the Western Front?
Correct answer: Algerian soldiers, Mike Mountain Horse and Chinese Labour Corps
All of the stories reveal the importance of technology
Ganga Singh and Algerian soldiers
Ganga Singh, Mike Mountain Horse and Chinese Labour Corps
Q4.
Whose story reveals the psychological impact of war?
Algerian soldiers at Ypres
Correct answer: All of the stories reveal the psychological impact of war
Chinese Labour Corps
Mike Mountain Horse
Q5.
What do all of our often forgotten armies stories reveal about the Western Front?
Correct answer: that people from a wide variety of countries served on the Western Front
that the people on the Western Front were just British, French and German soldiers
that the Western Front was a theatre of war
that war is pointless