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Flashcards by Andrew Burke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrew Burke
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The Western Front | A stretch of land 700 km long from the coast of the English Channel in Belgium to the French border with Switzerland. |
| Allied Forces | The armies of countries bound together by formal promises of support (main powers were Britain, France, and United States). |
| War of Attrition | A long period of conflict where each side seeks to gradually wear down the other by a series of small-scale actions. |
| Trench Warfare | A form of armed combat where two opposing groups fight one another from trenches that face each other. |
| Schlieffen Plan 1914 | This was a military plan of attack of how Germany could avoid war against France and Russia on two-fronts. |
| Chlorine gas | The first type of gas used in the trenches; this stripped away the linings of the lungs and caused victims to drown from their lungs filling with water. |
| Gas Gangrene | This is a bacterial infection that caused large numbers of deaths in the war. |
| Duckboards | A board built from a number of wooden slats joined together, usually placed over muddy ground in a trench. |
| Triage | This involved making an initial assessment of the wounded soldier, then sorting them into groups based on the severity of the wound itself. |
| Orderlies | Someone who is responsible for the non-medical care of patients and maintaining order and cleanliness in a hospital. |
| RAMC | Royal Army Medical Corps |
| 'Thomas splint' | An invention from Hugh Owen Thomas that stabilised the femur when it was fractured. It reduced blood loss and infection, and more importantly the death rate from a broken femur. |
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