See how much you know in our final KS3 History quiz on the First World War. During the First World War, technology began to produce new offensive weapons, such as the tank. Britain and France were its primary users; the Germans employed captured Allied tanks. The first tanks were unreliable and unpleasant to drive. They were more likely to break down than to be destroyed by the enemy.
On November 11th 1918, an armistice with Germany was signed in a railway carriage at Compiègne. In theory, Germany and the Allies were still at war until the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919. Legally, the war with Germany lasted until 10th January 1920. Several other treaties were signed with the other countries and the geography of Europe changed significantly. Germany had no say in the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles. As a result, the people of Germany felt they had not been treated with justice. They had to pay large sums of money to the Allies as compensation. This resentment allowed Adolf Hitler to come to power in the 1930s and was a major factor contributing to the Second World War.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - World War One
At 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month. The last soldier to die in the war is said to be Private George Lawrence Price, a Canadian soldier who was shot by a German sniper two minutes before the start of the armistice
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The treaty punished Germany harshly
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France had five different Prime Ministers during the war
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At the end of the war, many of the German soldiers were suffering from the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918. This outbreak of 'Spanish flu' killed more people than the war
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It was returned to France
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Germany had four African colonies
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In 1938, Nazi Germany invaded Austria, but many Austrians at the time welcomed this move
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It was founded on 10 January 1920
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This was a large cause of the resentment for the German people as it wrecked the economy
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The writer H. G. Wells used this expression
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