History 112 WW1 Long Answers Flashcards
Explain the Schlieffen Plan? Was it unsuccessful?
The plan was to stop Germany from two front war. It was not successful because they got bogged down in Belgium and the Russians moved faster then they thought.
What was so important about Vimy Ridge
Could see for miles in from the top
German stronghold
French and British could not capture it
The Canadians finally felt like a nation
Canadians fought as a unit
Explain trench culture, and why it was so important to the troops in the first world war
It was important because of the newspapers, theatre productions and mascots to cure their boredom
Discuss how the terms of the treaty of recess could lead to another war
Germans were forced to sign the war guilt cause (they didn’t start ww1)
Germans had their economies destroyed.
They lost all their colonies
