1. This is a postcard relating to World War I. Working in pairs, or small groups, examine it and answer the following questions:
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(a) Is a postcard a primary or secondary source? Give reasons for your answer. (b) This postcard is from between 1914 and 1918. From your reading, what year is it most likely from? Based on the evidence in the image, what years is it not from? Give reasons for your answers.
(c) From which country is this postcard? Give reasons for your answer. (d) Name the person on the right in the doorway. Explain why you think this. (e) What message is the artist trying to say in this image? (f) From your reading of this chapter, what is the man at the table going to carve up? Give reasons for your answer.
(g) What was the treaty that brought World War I to an end? (h) Outline the main outcomes of that treaty for each of the main countries of World War I.