Pre-WWI
The three nations of the Triple Entente.
Britain, France, and Russia.
The first major Canadian military engagement in WWI that established Canada’s reputation as strong fighters.
The Second Battle of Ypres (1915).
Speeches, posters, and front pages were used by the Canadian government to spread messages about the war.
Propaganda.
The situation where Canada refused to send soldiers to the battle between Britain and Turkey.
The Chanak Affair.
A term used to describe the soldiers who came back from the war.
Shell-shocked.
The three nations of the Triple Alliance.
Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany
The battle often regarded as a hopeless struggle that achieved no significant gain.
The Battle of Passchendaele (1917).
The French were almost all unanimously against it.
Conscription.
The British insisted on signing this treaty up until Canada threatened to appoint their own diplomat.
The Halibut Treaty.
The nation part of the Triple Entente/Triple Alliance that declared neutrality at the start of WWI before declaring war against Austria-Hungary on May 23, 1915.
Italy.
The reason why Canada joined the war.
Status as a commonwealth country of Britain.
The commander of the Canadian Corps, who was promoted in July of 1917, and objected to a superior's order.
Arthur Currie.
The Canadian act that prevented citizens who were born in “enemy” countries from voting.
Wartime Elections Act (1917).
The number of Imperial conferences held between 1887 and 1937.
Eleven.
A condition where, due to overexposure to rainwater for weeks on end, soldiers' feet swelled up to two or three times their average size and went numb.
Trench foot.
The nation Austria-Hungary declared war on after the assassination of their Archduke, Franz Ferdinand, and his wife. It led to a majority of European nations declaring war on each other.
Serbia.
The Ontarian man who served as a brigade surgeon and wrote "In Flanders Fields."
John McCrae.
The guns to be upgraded with war bonds, due to poor performance in the muddy trenches.
Ross rifles.
The declaration that gave Canada the right to make foreign policy decisions without British approval.
The Statute of Westminster
The method in which Franz Ferdinand's two run-ins with assassins on July 23, 1914 attempted to take his life (unsuccessful and successful).
A failed grenade and a coincidental gunman.
The signing of this international treaty marked the first time Canada was included at the negotiating table.
The Treaty of Washington.
The number of days it took for Canadian forces to capture the ridge in the Battle at Vimy Ridge (1917).
Four.
“Your ____ are Fighting, Why aren’t YOU?”
Chums.
Terms of the Treaty of Versailles (list 5).
- The German army was limited to 100 000 men.
- Germany lost territory (ex: the Polish corridor).
- Germany was banned from using conscription.
- Germany had to pay huge reparations.
- Germany was forbidden from having armoured vehicles, submarines or an airforce.
- The navy could build only six battleships.
- Germany had to demilitarised the Rhineland.
- Germany had to give up all of its colonies.
The first of the six major nations of the Triple Entente/Triple Alliance to pull out of the war and the reason why they did.
Russia and the Russian Revolution.