Test March 21/24 Flashcards
What are the three levels of trenches
Front Line
Support
Reserve
What is trench foot
Standing in water all day would cause feet to grow wrinkly they would have to get amputated
2 pests during trench’s
Rats and lice
3 weapons advantage and disadvantage
Artillery - lot of damage and heavy to move
Chlorine gas- deadly and depends on wind
Submarine- destroys supply ship and drowning
What happened to enemy aliens
Germans etc
Sent to international camps
Prejudice/racism in the army
It was essentially a white men war so only some skins were allowed to join and even then most weretnt allowed on battlefield
Conscription and the election of 1917
Voluntary recruitments were failing, and the idea of conscription divided Canada
Vote 1917
Borden one vote and wanted conscription but still people didn’t want to go
Define Conscription
Compulsory enlistment to the armed forces
Define military wars act
Gives a vote to all military personnel, including Women
Define propaganda 
Information, especially if a biased or misleading nature to promote a cause 
Define systematic racism 
Oppression of a group to the advantage of someone else 
Define rationing 
Only if fixed amount of something commonly to a person or family
Define IMB
Imperial munitions board 
Define war bond
 an investment from the people to the government to support the war
Who was in charge of war production?
Imperial munitions board