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War and peace
- Vimy Ridge
- Contributions/Importance
- 3,598 Canadians were killed and 7,000 were injured
- Four Canadians would earn the Victoria Cross, our country’s highest medal for military valour, for
separate actions in which they captured enemy machine gun positions.
- Where other countries failed, but Canada succeded
- Where/when
- Vimy ridge, France
- From below up to the ridge
- 5:30
- What/why
- Very important battle
- The very stratigic sport for furtherin the war
- difficult due to the Germans having the position
- A battle that turned the war in our favor
- Canada'a participation in military conflict positive
- Afghanistan war effort
- Contirbution
- 2,500 soldiers
- help train afghan national army
- Help U.S. to neturalize Al-qaeda
- aide U.S. in the war that was approved by U.N.
- What/why
- United States started
to invade Afghanistan
- Canada, Northern Alliance,
United Kingdom and Australia
joined to help
- Current day help in war
- Against suddam Husein
- Because of the 9/11 attack
- When/Where/who
- Kandahar, Afghanistan
- Canadian force under Prime minister Stephen harper
- against Al-Qaeda
- Osama bin laden
- With U.S.
- Battle of Normandy
- What/Why
- Several costly operations were
mounted by the Canadians to
fight a path to the pivotal city of
Caen
- Canadian
attack Juno
beach
- Allies
convinced
Germans that
their intended
target was Pas
de Calais
- Allied with the current powers of the
world, America, Britain
- Contibutions
- Several costly to obtain the position in France
- 21,400 on
Juno Beach
- The losses at
Juno beach are
340 killed, 574
wounded and
47 taken
prisoner
- Well known battle
- When/where
- Juno beach
- June 6,
1994- D Day
- normandy beach france
- D-DAY