History Unit 1: End Of The War

Question 1

1918 - Canada 100 days

Answer 1

Form August 4th - November 11th

• suffered 46 000
• last big pull of war Canada solders leading assault on Germans
• fought important battles at Amiens + arras, led allied troops into Belgium on the day that armistice (formal cease fire) was signed

Question 2

Who was the last Canadian solider / common wealth soldier to die

Answer 2

George price

• 10:58
• armistice took effect at 11:00 am, not 11 1918
• 616 636 Canadian served, 66655 died over 170000 has been wounded

Question 3

What is the treaty of Versailles

Answer 3

• Paris peace conference in 1919, meeting how war would finally end
• Canada offered is own seated at peace conference ( separate from Britain)

Question 4

What were the two camps during the meeting

Answer 4

One side - led by US president Woodrow Wilson want warring nations to take a cooperative approach in bargaining peace
Other side - France favoured to treat the loser harshly, wanted German to pay for aggression and destruction of French land and resources
- goal to weaken Germany so they could never start another war
- if Germany refused agreement, France vowed to attack
- many people including president Wilson feared harsh treatment of Germany would cause them to seek revenge in the future
- treaty of Versailles was reluctantly signed by German delegation

Question 5

The Germans agreed to:

Answer 5

• war guilt clause - full blame for war
• give up most weapons, ships, tanks
• surrender all of its colonies
• pay reparation of 30 - 55 billion dollars to France and Britain
  Treaty official ended, though seeds for the next war has been sown