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Start of the War
WWI Battles
New Technologies
War at Home
End of the War
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Terrorist group from Serbia, where member Gavrillo Princip, is known to have killed Archduke of Austria in Sarajevo in 1914
What is the Black Hand
100
This was a planned German attack through the “back door” of Belgium. A small force was sent straight across French-German border, retreat pulling French army after it; meanwhile, larger German force would march across Belgium and swing wide to the west and circle back toward Paris to catch French army in a giant trap
What is the Schlieffen Plan
100
The introduction of a new kind of warfare, where both sides dug ditches across Europe, from the English Channel through Belgium, across France to Switzerland, full of miserable conditions
What is Trench Warfare
100
Canadian women worked for new laws to be made for property ownership, better working conditions, secure work place, push open doors for academia, higher wages, fewer hours, right to vote for provincial election, which is known as this movement
What is the Suffragist Movement
100
An agreement by opposing sides to stop hostilities. The new republican government of Germany, after Kaiser Wilhelm II fled to the Netherlands, asked for this because he was ready to talk out peace terms. This brought the end of the war
What is an armistice
200
The assassination of the Archduke was the spark that triggered WWI; this quote symbolizes that after the assassination, all corners of the world began to mobilize to fight
What is "the shot that was heard around the world"
200
This battle highlighted the deadly effectiveness of modern artillery and the machine gun. British commander in chief, Douglas Haig, went on offensive to smash through German lines, but he was slow to adjust to the new demands of trench warfare. German casualties were much fewer than expected. German soldiers used an artillery Barrage; British soldiers went down from the machine guns firing; alarming casualty rates. Five month battle, 1.25 million casualties
What is the Battle of the Somme
200
He was a Canadian war pilot who came out of the clouds to surprise Germany’s famous “Red Baron” (Manfred Von Richthofen) just as he was about to fire on another Canadian pilot, Wop May
What is Roy Brown
200
This is the distribution of information to influence thoughts, beliefs, feelings, actions. Created by the government in an effort to enlist men, purchase victory bonds, be thrifty and save, and contribute to patriotic fund
What is Propaganda
200
Allied leaders were gathered here to set the terms of peace, as well as dispose of their enemies and shape the new Europe
What is the Paris Peace Conference
300
When Germany invaded Belgium in 1914, it forced this nation and its colony to join the war
What is Britain, and therefore forcing Canada to join as well
300
Four million shells had destroyed dams and drainage systems, and as a result the battlefield in this battle was a nightmare of marshes and swamps. Canadians crawled forward, waist deep in mud under deadly hail of German shells. 1/5th of the Canadian attack force remained alive once reinforcements came in
What is the Battle of Passchendaele
300
Germans developed this revolutionary new weapon of war, as they knew controlling the seas was key to defeating Britain. With this new technology, Germany started depriving England by cutting off all war materials, foodstuffs, goods – after merchant ships
What is U-Boats
300
The dark side of Canadian patriotism was seen when recent immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire were viewed with increased suspicion and anti-foreigner sentiment. Those without granted Canadian citizenship were labelled as this, as placed in internment Camps
What is "enemy aliens"
300
This organization was created at the end of the war to guarantee the peace and punish aggressive nations.
What is the League of Nations (later known as the UN)
400
These are the four main causes that helped create tensions between countries, and lead to the start of the war
What is militarism, alliance systems, imperialism, nationalism
400
In this battle, Chlorine Gas was used by the Germans for the first time on Canadian and French-Algerian troops. Canadian troops held up for 3 days under repeated artillery and gas attacks until British reinforcements arrived. Soldiers clawed at their throats, bodies swelled up, struggled to breathe. Fewer than half the Canadian soldiers survived, 6037 casualties. Canadians won high praise as courageous fighters
What is the Battle of Ypres
400
Sam Hughes insisted on using this weapon, because it was excellent for sharp shooting and was made in Canada. It was useless in trench warfare because it was long and heavy and easily jammed with dirt; an example of Canadian equipment that failed the test of warfare
What is the Ross Rifle
400
These were the four most crucial contributions made by Canadian women to help in the war effot
What were munition factory work, becoming nurses overseas, being thrifty (save money and food), and sew clothes to send overseas
400
This was meant to ensure WWI would be the war to end all wars so Europe would enjoy a lasting peace. With the signing of this in 1917, a new Europe emerged where empires disappeared; emerged the “Big Three” Britain, France, USA who mapped out and redrew nation borders, left Germany a crippled nation, stripped of wealth and armed forces
What is the Treaty of Versailles
500
He was the German Emperor when his nation entered the Great War
Who was Kaiser Wilhelm II
500
Canadian troops were steadily gaining a reputation as tough, effective, and courageous fighters and this battle was a major turning point of Canadian military achievement in WWI. This was a long, whale shaped hump of land that rose 60 metres about Douai Plain in France, gave German soldiers commanding view of British army, dug a maze of deep trenches and dugouts, machine gun positions, barbed wire. Julian Byng and Arthur Currie – every stage of attack rehearsed to the last detail – up to the Canadians to take the battle, British and French have failed. Canadians used “Creeping barrage,” curtain of gunfire in front of advancing troops – Canadians won a strategic position for Allies. This battle showed the world that Canadians were capable of devising and carrying out a well-planned and successful attack
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge
500
This event reminded Canadians of death and devastation, and brought the horrors of war to the Canadian doorstep. A cargo ship loaded with tonnes of high explosives, collided with another ship; the ship blew up and 2000 were left dead.
What is the Halifax Disaster of 1917
500
These were individuals in Canada who opposed the war on moral grounds. Those who spoke out on war often lost their jobs. These religious (Doukhobors, Mennonites, Hutterites) groups were treated with suspicion and hostility
What were Pacifists
500
These were five crucial terms and conditions Germany had to abide by at the end of the war, with the signing of an international treaty
What is to surrender all German overseas investments to the Allied powers, pay heavy war reparations to France, Britain, and Russia, as well as other nations affected by the war, take full blame for the war, denied a naval and air force and was required to greatly reduce its military forces, prohibited from joining in any alliance, acknowledge the independence of Austria and Czechoslovakia