Pre-WW1
The assassination of this Austrian archduke triggered the war.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This 1915 battle was Canada’s first major engagement in WWI.
The 2nd Battle of Ypres
Canada signed this 1919 peace treaty separately from Britain.
Treaty of Versailles
This gas, first used at Ypres, caused severe lung damage.
Chlorine gas
This 1914 law gave the government broad emergency powers.
War Measures Act
This Balkan country’s nationalist tensions contributed to the start of WWI:
Serbia
This 1916 battle saw the first use of tanks in history.
Battle of the Somme
This concept describes Canada gaining more control over its own decisions after WWI.
autonomy
This stretch of exposed land between trenches was deadly to cross.
No Mans Land
This crisis divided English and French Canadians over mandatory military service.
Conscription Crisis
This system divided Europe into two groups, which were known as:
The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance
This 1917 battle united all four Canadian divisions.
Vimy Ridge
This battle is often described as the birth of Canadian national identity.
Of all battles, it's Vimy Ridge
This new military technology was intended to break the stalemate of trench warfare by crossing trenches and crushing barbed wire.
Tanks
This group faced internment and discrimination during the war.
The Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance were made up of which countries?
The Triple Alliance - Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
The Triple Entente - France, Britain, Russia
This muddy 1917 battle is also called the Third Battle of Ypres.
Battle of Passchendaele
Approximately this many Canadian soldiers died in WWI.
~66,000
Early tanks used at the Somme moved at only about this speed.
6km/h
Habeas corpus was the right removed from citizens so the government could enforce the War Measures Act. Explain the right.
A person who is arrested has the right to be brought before a court so a judge can decide whether the detention is lawful.
Please define the acronym of MAIN
Militarism - everybody wanted to have the stronger military
Alliances - everybody wanted someone else supporting and backing then up in case of war
Imperialism - there was competition over colonies
Nationalism - everybody thought their country was the best
This 1918 campaign helped end the war and made Canadians known as “shock troops.”
The Hundred Day Offensive
This campaign cost Canada about 45,000 casualties near the end of the war.
Hundred Days Offensive
This form of warfare focused on wearing down the enemy over time rather than quick victories.
Attrition warfare
This explosion in 1917 devastated a major Canadian port city
The Halifax Explosion