Causes of WWI
This word describes strong pride and loyalty to one’s country.
This was the land between enemy trenches that soldiers had to cross during attacks.
What is No Man's Land?
This Canadian general led the Canadian Corps during many major battles.
Who is Sir Arthur Currie?
This 1915 battle was the first time poison gas was used on a large scale against Canadian troops.
What is the 2nd Battle of Ypres?
These were loans citizens gave the government to help fund the war.
What are Victory Bonds?
This system of agreements between countries meant that if one country went to war, others would join.
What are alliances?
This painful condition was caused by soldiers’ feet being constantly wet in trenches.
What is Trench Foot?
This Indigenous Canadian soldier became one of the most decorated snipers of the war.
Who is Francis Pegahmagabow?
This major harbour explosion occurred in Nova Scotia in 1917.
What is the Halifax Explosion?
This act allowed the Canadian government to take emergency powers during the war.
What is the War Measures Act?
This immediate event triggered World War I in 1914.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This front was the main battlefield in France and Belgium during WWI.
What is the Western Front?
This Canadian flying ace was famous for his success in aerial combat.
Who is Billy Bishop?
This final series of Allied victories in 1918 helped end the war.
What is the Hundred Days Campaign?
This system encouraged Canadians to voluntarily reduce food consumption during the war.
What is Honour Rationing?
This German military strategy aimed to defeat France quickly before Russia could mobilize.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
These were long, narrow ditches dug into the ground to protect soldiers from enemy fire.
What are trenches?
This battalion was the first all-Black military unit in Canadian history.
What is the No. 2 Construction Battalion?
This British passenger ship was sunk by a German submarine in 1915.
What is the Lusitania?
This policy required men to serve in the military whether they volunteered or not.
What is Conscription?
These four causes are remembered by the acronym MAIN.
What is MAIN?
Name one major danger soldiers faced while crossing No Man’s Land.
What are machine guns, artillery, barbed wire, sniper fire?
This 1917 battle is often seen as a defining moment for Canadian identity.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This meeting in 1919 brought Allied leaders together to decide the terms of peace.
What is the Paris Peace Conference?
This law introduced conscription in Canada in 1917.
What is the Military Service Act?