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The strategy where Allied merchant ships sailed together under the escort of armed naval warships to protect against U-boat attacks.
What is a convoy system?
The Bosnian Serb nationalist and member of the Black Hand who shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo.
Who was Gavrilo Princip?
The April 1917 battle in which all four divisions of the Canadian Corps fought together for the first time to capture a strategic high point in northern France.
What was the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This person was Canada’s Prime Minister during WW1.
Robert Borden
Introduced in 1917, this was the Canadian law that forced all able body men over age of 18 to join the Canadian army.
What is the conscription crisis?
A military tactic involving intense, continuous artillery bombardment over a wide area to clear barbed wire and destroy enemy trenches before an infantry advance.
What is a creeping barrage?
The Prime Minister of Canada, who led the nation through World War I, introduced the Military Service Act of 1917, and secured independent signatures for Canada on the Treaty of Versailles.
Who was Sir Robert Borden?
The April 1915 battle in Belgium where Canadian troops held the line despite facing the Western Front's first large-scale deadly poison gas attack.
What was the Second Battle of Ypres?
This person was appointed by the PM to be the Minister of Militia- in charge of creating Canada’s army
Sam Hughes
The name of a nervous breakdown that soldiers had as a result of the stress and noise of the fighting in battles.
What is Shell Shock?
Canadians used this term to refer to people who had immigrated to Canada from enemy countries (Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary)
What are enemy aliens?
Canada’s top flying ace of the First World War, credited with 72 official aerial victories and awarded the Victoria Cross.
Who was Billy Bishop?
The massive 1916 Allied offensive where Canadian troops earned a reputation as elite assault troops, but suffered over 24,000 casualties during four months of brutal fighting.
hat was the Battle of the Somme?
Loans made by the public to the government to help finance the war effort- $4 became $5
Victory Bonds
This law gave women who had a close family member in the war the right to vote; took away the right to vote from enemy aliens.
What is the Wartime Elections Act.
The strategic naval strategy employed by German submarine warfare to sink all merchant and passenger vessels bound for Allied ports without warning.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
These are the leaders of Russia and Germany, (including their proper titles).
Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II
he late 1917 battle fought in a swamp of knee-deep mud where General Arthur Currie’s troops captured the targeted Belgian village at the cost of over 15,000 Canadian casualties.
What was the Battle of Passchendaele?
A program initiated by the Government that limited the goods (food, gas) people could buy
Rationing
These are 3 items that soldiers were given to eat while they were living in the trenches.
What is Pea Soup w/ horse meat, Bully Beef, and bread from turnips?
(hard tack, jam, bacon, stew, tea etc)
This decision legally compelled Germany to accept total responsibility for initiating WWI and pay massive financial reparations. This was also found in a certain treaty.
What is the War Guilt Clause and Treaty of Versailles?
The first Canadian-born commander of the Canadian Corps who led Canadian forces through Passchendaele and Canada's Hundred Days, famous for meticulously planning operations.
Who was General Sir Arthur Currie?
This new technology was slow and heavy, hence its nickname, "landship".
What is a tank?
A program initiated by the government to provide monetary assistance to families of enlisted soldiers ($30-40 a month)
What is the Canadian Patriotic Fund?
One group of Canadians were upset that all training for the army was done in English, and felt that WW1 was a European battle, while another group's loyalty to Britain led them to support conscription.
What are French Canadians and English Canadians?