Air
This is a nickname for the airforce, because of how dangerous their job was
Suicide Service :(
This is where the Creeping Barrage aka Rolling Barrage was first used
Vimy Ridge
These rodents would feast upon the bodies of dead soldiers
Rats
This is how Canadian soldiers figured out a clever way to avoid breathing in chlorine gas (before gas masks were invented)
Urinating (peeing) on cloth that they held over their mouth & nose
This is what you call a group of ships travelling together for protection
Convoy
At the beginning of the war, planes were used mostly for this R word
Reconnaissance aka Recon
This is where poison gas was first used by the Germans
2nd Battle of Ypres
This terrible disease was caused by having wet feet for too long
Trench Foot
This is the most interesting class at school
History!!
This is the technology that our battleships used to detect submarines
Sonar or Radar (based on echolocation)
This Canadian pilot shot down the dreaded Red Baron
Roy Brown
This "bloodbath" cost the British 60,000 casualties in the first day alone
The Somme
This condition is now called PTSD but used to be called...
Shell Shock
What continent does most of the British & Canadian fighting happen on? What country?
Europe. France.
This is when a bunch of ships line up to make a "wall" that enemy ships can't pass through
Blockade
This is the name for a hotshot pilot who had more than 5 kills
Ace
This is the battle that made Canada famous around the world & earned us a lot of respect. This battle put Canada on the map.
Vimy Ridge
This is what we call the land between the trenches
No Man's Land
This is when a group of countries agree to always have each others' back & fight together
Alliance
Sinking this ship was a big mistake for the Germans, because it made the Americans finally join the war on our side
The Lusitania
What % of all "British" pilots were actually Canadian?
40%
In this battle, the generals kept ordering our troops "over the top" without any kind of plan. They ran out into No Man's Land to mostly get slaughtered by German machine guns
The Somme
These little bugs infested pretty much everybody's uniform
Lice
The assassination of this man was the spark that set off World War I
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
This is the German word for submarines. It literally means "under sea boat".
Unterseebooten