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Flashcards by Vivi Grace, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Vivi Grace
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| Question | Answer |
| Armistice | Agreement to cease fighting. |
| (war of ) attrition | gradual wearing down of the power to resist; reduce the effectiveness of military forces |
| Australian Imperial Force | Name of the Australian army in WW1 and WW2 |
| Autocratic power | Unrestricted authority |
| Ballarat reform league | Organisation formed in 1854 to protest against the regulation of the Ballarat gold diggings |
| Blackbirding | Recruitment of workers through trickery or deception |
| Capitalism | Economic system based on competition between sellers. |
| Colonialism | Policy of a country to take over another area and exploit its resources. |
| Colonialisation | Establishment of direct control by an outside power over the affairs of people who are native to that area. |
| Constitution | Statement of fundamental principles underlying the governance of a country. |
| Democracy | System of government in which citizens elect representatives to make laws on their behalf. |
| Emancipist | Convict whose sentence has expired |
| Franchise | Right to vote |
| Free trade | Trade unrestricted by trade barriers such as tariffs. |
| 'Kanaka' | Racist slang term once used to refer to Pacific Island labourers. |
| Offensive | A military campaign involving an attack |
| Penal colony | Settlement established for the purpose of housing prisoners |
| Reactionary | Politically conservative. |
| Referendum | Vote by the entire electorate on a specific question |
| Responsible government | Government that is answerable to the people it represents |
| Stockade | Temporary barrier to protect inhabitants from attack |
| Suffrage | Right to vote. |
| Tariff | Tax on imported goods |
| Terra nullius | Latin for "vacant land", the legal basis on which Britain settled Australia in 1788 |
| Theatre of war | Large area in which all types of military action are found. |
| Total war | War in which any weapons may be used and in which civilians can become targets because the home front is involved |
| Trans-antlantic slave trade | European transportation of African slaves across the atlantic ocean to American colonies. |
| Trench warfare | Development of roughly parallel fighting lines separated by No Man's Land, in which troops have some protection from attack and the weapons of the opposing forces. |
| Trenches | Long ditches constructed as a defence against attack |
| Triangular trade | Three-way trade comprising a source of raw materials, a manufacturer of goods and a market for for the finished product. |
| Western Front | World War 1 trench system that ran from Belgium to Switzerland. |
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