Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Gr.10 Canadian History
- WWI
- Causes of WWI
- Militarism
- belief in power of strong armies -each
country tried to build larger/more
powerful armies
- Imperialism
- desire to have bigger empire;
more colonies and land than
other nations
- Alliances
- countries that worked together;
war between countries would
involve more than one country
- Alliances --triple entente (Allies):
France, Britain and Russia
--triple alliance: Germany,
Austria-Hungary and Italy
- Nationalism
- Feeling of deep
loyalty to ones land
- Black Hand --
assasinated Archduke
Ferdinand
- Battles
- Ypres, 1915
- -fight between Allies and Germany
-germans use first gas tank in history
-british officials sent canadians to front line
to protect from heavy german attack, over
6000 canadians died
- Somme, 1916
- -british, canadian and french against germans
-british and canadians help french at Somme River
-british attacked in german trenches, broke
barbed wire; germans did machine gun fire on No
Man's Land -germans withdrew 1917
- Vimy Ridge, 1917
- -canadian troop against german troops
-allies failed taking back Vimy Ridge so
british sent canadians to go attack: canadian
soldiers rehearsed plan for attack; spied
-canadians fired poison gas, and killed
german's horses -plan executed perfectly
and Vimy Ridge taken over in less than two
hours -known as greatest battle canadians
fought
- Passendale
- -take control over german submarine bases
-rain made mud harder for troops to get
through; many troops stuck in mud - mud
damaged artilery platforms, railways, cars and
soldiers; food and water destroyed too
-germans began to use mustard gas
- Key Terms/Things
to Remember
- Canada's entry into war; part of British
empire so cananda was automatically at
war with Germay, and Canada's PM,
Robert Borden, strongly supported Britian
- Schleiffen plan used by Germans
to attack France but failed
- Trenches: holes in the ground dug up
for soldiers to hide and attack in;
Trench Warfare
- New tech: long range artillery, machine
guns, chemical warfare, planes, u-boats,
tanks; first use of chem warfare used by
germans in batlle of ypres
- Propaganda: spreading of information
to get intended audience to join in...sort
of like advertising to join the war
- Conscription Crisis "mandatory military service":
forced canadian men to fight overseas -Borden
wanted to make up for canadian casualties -
passed war-time elections act= women related to
soldiers or nurses were allowed to vote -english
were for it french were not
- 100 Days
- America joined in 1917
- Germany was near collapse
- Canadians stayed after
war to keep peace
- End of WWI
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