Show:
The Basics
Why the Ridge Mattered
Leaders
Lessons and Preparations
Victory and Remembrance
100
The country where Vimy Ridge is
France
100
The Germans had this advantage because they were on top of the ridge
Height (they could see everything)
100
The general whose plan helped win Vimy Ridge
Arthur Currie
100
The earlier battle Canada learned its mistakes from
The Somme
100
The Canadian bill that shows the Vimy Memorial
The $20 bill
200
The month and year the battle started
April 1917
200
The ridge's shape made it a natural one of these for the Germans
Fortress
200
The month Currie was ordered to capture the ridge
February 1917
200
Underground tunnels used to move supplies
Subways
200
The person who designed the Vimy Memorial
Walter Allward
300
The two main sides that fought
Canada (British Empire) and the German Empire
300
The ridge was close to these important German-held areas
Industrial areas
300
Currie's job before the war, besides teaching (name one)
Insurance salesman or real estate
300
Soldiers practised on these so they knew the battlefield
Models of the trenches
300
The attack where soldiers followed close behind the artillery fire
Creeping barrage
400
How many days the battle lasted (April 9 to 12)
4 days
400
Being up high let the Germans do this all the time
Watch the enemy
400
The Lieutenant-General in charge of the Canadian Corps
Sir Julian Byng
400
About how many Canadian soldiers fought at Vimy
100,000
400
The number of Canadian divisions that fought together for the first time
4
500
The French region where Vimy is
Pas-de-Calais
500
The ridge had this kind of value for the military
Strategic
500
The "artillery mastermind"
Major Alan Brooke
500

The nickname for the two weeks of shelling before the attack

The Week of Suffering

500
The total number of Canadian casualties at Vimy
10,602