Show:
War at Sea
War on the Home Front
Women at War
The War Ends
The Treaty of Versailles
100
This was Canada's main role in the war at sea.
What was convoying merchant ships across the Atlantic?
100
This term refers to the people who took advantage of the war to make lots of money in their war related industries.
Who were profiteers?
100
Women tended to be employed in the making of ______ during wartime.
What was guns, shells and aircraft?
100
This country left the war in 1917 due to a communist revolution occuring at home.
Who was Russia?
100
The name of the generous peace settlement drawn up by the United States.
What is the 14 points?
200
This country was incredibly deadly with its use of submarines during the war at sea.
What was Germany?
200
This act gave a limited number of women the federal vote for the first.
What was the War Measures Act?
200
Women were also employed in these civil jobs as well during wartime.
What was streetcar drivers, secretaries and office managers?
200
This country entered the war in 1917 tipping the scales in favour of the Triple Entente.
What was the United States?
200
The two countries that wanted to give Germany the harshest settlement.
Who were Britian and France?
300
The largest man-made explosion to ever have occurred at that point in history happened in 1917 in this Canadian city.
What was Halifax?
300
Conscription is the title given to this military mandate.
What is forced military service?
300
This was the main duty of women who went overseas during the war.
What was nursing?
300
An armistices refers to this action.
What is an agreement to stop fighting?
300
The treaty of Versailles eventually lead to this outcome in 1939.
What is WWII?
400
The Halifax explosion occurred as a result of this.
What is the collision of two ships in the harbour one of which was carrying heavy explosives for the war effort?
400
The majority of this group of Canadians did not support the move towards conscription.
Who were the French Canadians?
400
The War Measures Act gave the vote to this limited section of Canadian women.
Who were the mothers, wives and sisters of soldiers?
400
This is the exact date in which WWI ended.
What is November 11th 1918.
400
The name of the money and goods that the Germans had to pay to the allies following the war.
What are reparations?
500
The sinking of the Lusitania was a major reason for this country entering the war.
What was the United States?
500
This politician from the _____ political party won the 1917 election on a political platform supporting the use of conscription.
Who was the Conservative Robert Borden?
500
These can be listed as some of the many things that women did to support soldiers overseas.
What was the knitting of socks, sending of letters and packages and visiting families of soliders killed in service to their country?
500
We celebrate this day to honour the sacrifices of the many soldiers lost in war.
What is Rememberance Day?
500
The name given to Germany's forced acceptance of primary blame for the war.
What is the War Guilt Clause?