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