Causes
Agreements between countries to support each other in case of conflict.
Alliances
The long line of trenches spreading from the North Sea to the Swiss border where much of the fighting happened.
Western Front
The size of the Canadian army at the start of war, when PM Borden promised to send 30,000.
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Who was the prime minister of Canada during World War I?
Robert Borden
The country blamed for Archduke's assassination.
Serbia
This ideology, which involved intense pride in one's nation, contributed to World War I by causing competition and conflict over territory and power.
Nationalism
The dangerous area that separates opposing trenches.
No man's land
This 1917 battle, where Canadian troops captured a strategic ridge in France, is considered a defining moment for Canada in World War I.
Vimy Ridge
This form of media was used by the government to encourage Canadians to support the war, often showing the enemy as dangerous and evil.
Propaganda
Enemy aliens
The city that Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in.
Sarajevo
This infection which sometimes resulted in the amputation of a toe, foot, or limb is representative of the horrible living conditions inside World War I trenches.
Trench foot
The first major battle that Canadians fought in, in 1915, saw the use of poison gas for the first time.
Second Battle of Ypres
This crisis fractured Canada, splitting the population between English and French.
Conscription Crisis
On November 11, 1918 the guns fell silent after this agreement between rivals.
Armistice
What was the purpose of Germany's Schlieffen Plan?
To avoid a war on two fronts, with France and Russia
An order for soldiers to rush out of the trenches to attack the enemy.
Over the top
Poor weather and weeks of bombardment turned this battlefield into a dangerous quagmire, perhaps as deadly as the enemy's bullets.
Passchendaele
This law gave the government extensive power to pass new laws without consulting Parliament.
War Measures Act
The name of the 1919 agreement that officially ended World War I.
Treaty of Versailles
This crisis in 1914 followed the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and involved intense diplomatic negotiations between European powers.
the July Crisis
The name of the civilian ship sunk by German U-boats contributing to the US decision to join the war.
Lusitania
This Canadian commander led the troops during the Battle of Vimy Ridge and helped develop Canada’s reputation as an elite fighting force.
Arthur Currie
This law extended the vote to female relatives of soldiers. It was the first time women could vote in federal elections in Canada.
Wartime Elections Act
The date Canada went to war.
August 4, 1914