Boer War

Question 1

What was used in the Boer war

Answer 1

HORSES

Question 2

Who was powerful in the 19th Century (and took lots of taxes)

Answer 2

England

Question 3

What year did USA become independent from England

Answer 3

18th century

Question 4

What year did Canada become “independent” from England

Answer 4

1867

Question 5

Why does South Africa speak english

Answer 5

Because Britain had control

Question 6

Who were the boer people decedents of?

Answer 6

Dutch immigrants from Holland (Boer people spoke Dutch)

Question 7

canada had not taken place in war for ______ years since confederation

Answer 7

32

Question 8

There was a lot of public pressure to join the Boer war because ____________________.

Answer 8

Because mant of the Canadians were of British ancestry

Question 9

Who wad the Canadian Prime Minister at the time?

Answer 9

Wilfrid Laurier

Question 10

How many soldiers did Canada send into the Boer war?

Answer 10

7000

Question 11

What bill is Sir Wilfrid Laurier on now?

Answer 11

$5 bill

Question 12

What year did the Boer war start?

Answer 12

1899

Question 13

Who became the first nation in modern history to use concentration camps to enslave and exterminate?

Answer 13

Britain

Question 14

Why was the Boer war so important for Canada?

Answer 14

Because many of the soldiers from this war would become officers who would lead Canada into WW1 (ten years later)

Question 15

Why did the Boer war create tention in Canada?

Answer 15

Because the French Canadians wanted NO part of it.

Question 16

When did Germany and Britain start rapidly building ships?

Answer 16

Late 1800’s

Question 17

What were the 2 nations using to make all of the ships?

Answer 17

State of the art technology ( new )

Question 18

What were the new boats called?

Answer 18

Dreadnouhts

Question 19

What were Dreadnoughts?

Answer 19

Big, steam powered vessels with thick armour and powerful guns

Question 20

When did the war on the sea start?

Answer 20

1914

Question 21

How many expectations did Britain make for Canada?

Answer 21

3

Question 22

What were the 3 expectation for Canada to help Great Britain

Answer 22

1: Canada would supply soldiers to fight under the flag of Britain
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2: Britain would “give” Canada lots of ships but Canada would pay to maintain the boats and loan them to Britain in war
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3: Canada would regularly send money to Britain ti help pay for the defence of the Britain empire

Question 23

What did Canada debate to help Britain with?

Answer 23

1: Canada would form her own navy known as the “ Royal Canadian Navy”
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2: Canada would build her own ships that would be used in the defence of CANADA
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3: If Britain got involved in a war that Canada was not involved in, Canada would loan the ships to Britain for the war
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4: ONLY volunteers could serve on these ships. (Britain could not demand sailors or soldiers which meant that french Canadians would not have to serve England)

Question 24

Who was in the triple Entente?

Answer 24

Great Britain
France
Russia

Question 25

Who was in the triple alliance?

Answer 25

Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy

Question 26

What was good about the “triple” system

Answer 26

It kept the countries on there best behaviour

Question 27

What was bad about the “triple” system

Answer 27

There could be NO small conflict

Question 28

When did the “Dominoes” start to fall

Answer 28

1914

Question 29

How did the war start?

Answer 29

With the killing of a married couple

Question 30

How many people died in the war?

Answer 30

Over 37 million people

Question 31

What was WW1 supposed to be?

Answer 31

“The war to end all wars”

Question 32

When was the war supposed to end?

Answer 32

Christmas that year

Question 33

How long was the war

Answer 33

Almost 5 years

Question 34

What were the people who survived known as?

Answer 34

“The lost generation”

Question 35

What was the date that Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofie (the heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne)

Answer 35

June 28, 1914

Question 36

Where did the Ferdinands get murdered

Answer 36

Sarajevo

Question 37

Info about than man who murdered Franz Ferdinand

Answer 37

He was a Serbian terrorist from a group called “The Black Hand”

Question 38

Who began to mobilize their army to defeat Serbia

Answer 38

Rusia

Question 39

When was WW1 declared

Answer 39

August 1st

Question 40

When did France and Germany declare war?

Answer 40

August 3rd

Question 41

Who disobeyed the triple alliance and when

Answer 41

Italy in 1915

Question 42

What does USA give the impression of

Answer 42

That the USA won the war buttttt… They only sold weapons to Britain, Russia, and France and only joined the war in 1917

Question 43

Who was Russia trying to over-through?

Answer 43

There leader, Tsar Nicolis ll

Question 44

What years was the Boer War ( aka South African War)

Answer 44

1899-1902