Canadian Battles
A battle in France the solidified the Canadian Army as a terrifying force
What is Vimy Ridge
The "stand to" meaning.
What is dawn, the usual time of attack which the soldiers woke to, to guard their trenches?
Two countries fought on the Italian front.
What is Italy and Germany?
Formally ended World War 1.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Main use of the early tank.
What is crossing trenches and wire entanglements?
Battle of Ypres.
What is Canada’s first major appearance on a European battlefield?
Effects of low morale.
What is desertion, self inflicted wounds, and malingering?
To control the Isonzo river.
What is twelve battles to get control over this river?
Name of the plan put forth by Woodrow Wilson
What is the fourteen points?
The Zeppelin.
A type of rigid airship. They were inaccurate and exposed to artillery and small arms fire from the ground.
The Battle of the Somme at Beaumont-Hamel (1916).
What is Canadian soldiers pushed back the Germans as part of a four-month offensive?
Troops were so exhausted.
What is the inability to defend oneself against shelling or snipers, and the constants hardships pf trench life?
Peninsula in the south of Turkey.
What is Bosphorus?
The Germans got revenge for the treaty 20 years later.
Who is the German military force going into Rhineland?
Problems with the Ross Rifle.
What is rapid firing the rifle and often caused it to overheat and seize up?
The Battle of Hill 70 and Lens (1917).
What is Canadian forces captured the strategic position of Hill 70.
Some things that helped keep morale and that the soldiers looked forward to.
What is friendship, loyalty, community, training, and strong leadership?
The trenches.
What is dug by both sides along the Western Front?
Germans were punished in many ways.
What is Germany being stripped of 13% of its territory, 1/10th of its population, and couldn't recover quickly after the war?
The Lusitiania.
What is the German submarine U-20 torpedoed and sank the Lusitania, a swift moving British cruise?
The Battle of Passchendaele (1917).
Who is 100,000 Canadian soldiers captured enemy territory by fighting through mud and enemy fire?
The government finally did, years later, for men who were executed for various military crimes.
Who is the Canadian government adding names of those executed for desertion + cowardice during the war to the Book of Rememberance at Parliament hill (2001)?
The Eastern front.
What is this front saw fighting between Russian, German, and Austro Hungarian troops?
Four main leaders of the Treaty of Versailles and they all wanted different things.
Who is Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Georges Clemenceau, Woodrow Wilson and what is wilson trying to keep the Europeans from "getting even" and what is George and ?
This person purchased Ross Rifles for Canadian troops.
who is Sam Hughs