Background to War
This nation had the world’s largest Empire.
What is the British Empire?
This term best describes the act of acquiring and exploiting another country or region for its resources and wealth.
What is imperialism?
Canadian troops first saw action in this battle and is remembered the first use of poison gas.
What is the Second Battle of Ypres?
This military invention revolutionized warfare by increasing rounds per minute to roughly 400-500 and drove soldiers into trenches en masse.
What is the machine gun?
Many returning soldiers carried the influenza virus home to North America, causing this type of international crisis.
What is a pandemic?
This nation desperately wanted control of territory in the Balkans so they could access warm-water ports.
What is Russia?
[TWO ANSWERS REQUIRED] This country offered a "blank cheque" to this other country after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Who are Germany (offered the "blank cheque") and Austria-Hungary?
This person was the Prime Minister of Canada in power when WW1 began.
Who is PM Borden?
The land in between two opposing forces was called this.
What is No Man's Land?
This organization was formed after the Paris Peace Conference negotiations and served as a precursor for the United Nations.
What is the League of Nations?
These three countries were aligned as the "Triple Alliance" prior to WW1.
What are Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
What is declaring war (on Germany)?
This battle is remembered around the world for Canada's military prowess and success where French and British forces had been unsuccessful for more than two years. Canadian troops followed a meticulous plan involving deceptive attacks and covert tunnelling to capture an important military vantage point.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
Common during WW1, this disease occurs when one's feet are wet and cold for an extended period of time and is characterized by swelling, gangrene (tissue death), and predisposition to infection.
What is trench foot?
These countries were excluded from all proceedings of the Paris Peace Conference.
Before WW1, these two countries vastly expanded their navies which included the construction of dreadnoughts, the largest and fastest battle ships in the world.
What are Great Britain and Germany?
This was the name of the terrorist group that assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
What is the Black Hand?
It was at this battle that a Canadian was given the position of leading Canadian troops for the first time. Also, this battle saw some of the largest number of casualties.
What is Passchendaele?
This war strategy is characterized by continuous attacking until exhaustion.
What is war of attrition?
Germany had to agree to this as a term of the Treaty of Versailles, accepting sole responsibility for causing WW1.
What is the War Guilt Clause?
It was from this political entity that present day Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Kuwait were created.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Strong feelings of nationalism in this country were a threat to their Austro-Hungarian imperialists.
What is Serbia?
Their seat at the Paris Peace Conference was significant to Canada for this reason.
What is international recognition as an independent nation?
Armed with torpedoes, these German submarines sank many Allied merchant ships and warships.
What are U-boats (Unterseeboots/ undersea boats)?
The Treaty of Versailles imposed these three restrictions on the German military.
What are restricting their army to 100 000 troops, surrendering their navy, and prohibiting a German air force.