TEST - WW1 PEOPLE

Question 1

Wilfrid “Wop” May

Answer 1

• Wilfrid “Wop” May was a Canadian flying ace in WWI. He was the final allied pilot to be pursued by Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron) before the German flying ace was shot down on the Western Front in 1918.

Question 2

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 2

• the Archduke of Austria-Hungary and was assassinated in Sarajevo. His death triggered WWI and he died of a bullet wound in his throat.

Question 3

Arthur Currie

Answer 3

• he started off as a militia officer and had never commanded anything larger than a regiment at the outbreak of war in 1918. During the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he held a pivotal role in holding the Allied position. He rose to command the 1st Canadian Division in September 1915. Currie was Sir Julian Byng’s replacement and was appointed the head of the Canadian Corps in June of 1917. Under his command/leadership the Canadians cemented their reputation as an elite assault formation, with an unbroken string of major victories in 1917-1918 that included Hill 70, Passchendaele, Amiens, Arras and the Canal du Nord.

Question 4

Billy Bishop

Answer 4

• he is one of the pilots who provided aerial support during the Battle of Vimy Ridge, he shot down 12 planes in April 1917 alone, winning the Military Cross and earning a promotion to Captain. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his single-handed attack on a German airfield near Cambrai, France on June 2, 1913. By the end of the First World War, Bishop had been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and was credited with destroying 72 enemy aircraft.

Question 5

Czar Nicolas II

Answer 5

• he was the last king of Russia, until he and his family were murdered while taking a family portrait by Bolshevik soldiers. He was a distant cousin of the King of England and the King of Germany.

Question 6

David Lloyd George

Answer 6

• Lloyd George wanted a peace treaty that would punish Germany, but would not cripple it. Lloyd George wanted Germany to recover its economic strength. This would enable Germany to pay its reparations to Britain.

Question 7

Douglas Haig

Answer 7

• he was the reason for thousands of men losing their lives at the Battle of the Somme and Arras. He was tasked with training Candians to get them prepared for war and geard up for war, but he only caused problems.

Question 8

Emily Murphy

Answer 8

• she was a Canadian women’s rights activist, jurist, and author. She is best known for her contributions to Canadian feminism, specifically to the question of whether women were “persons” under Canadian law.

Question 9

Emperor Franz Joseph

Answer 9

• during the 1848 to 1860 absolutism era in the Empire, Franz Joseph was well respected and was the glue that held the Empire together during tough times. Not everyone liked him, though. There was an attempt on his life during 1853, when Hungarian nationalist János Libényi stabbed him in the neck from behind.

Question 10

Francis Pegahmagabow

Answer 10

• Francis Pegahmagabow was a highly-effective sniper and scout in the First World War, and his military service and passionate advocacy for Indigenous rights continue to be an inspiration to his Nishnaabe community. He was among the earliest enlistees following the declaration of war.

Question 11

Gavrilo Princip

Answer 11

• when he was only 19 years old, he shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir apparent to the Austrian throne, and his wife Sophie as their motorcade passed by on the streets of Sarajevo. He was a part of the Black Hand, a terrorist group from Serbia.

Question 12

Georges Clemenceau

Answer 12

• he was appointed Minister of the Interior in March 1906, nicknamed “the Tiger” and designating himself as the “first cop in France”, he harshly repressed strikes - which kept him away from the Socialists - and put an end to the quarrel over inventories. He also played a role in the Paris Peace Conference, and took part in the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 13

Henry Norwest

Answer 13

• one of the most famous Canadian snipers in the First World War was a Métis marksman who went by the name of Henry Louis Norwest. In his nearly three years of service with the 50th Canadian Infantry Battalion, the lance-corporal achieved a sniping record of 115 fatal shots.

Question 14

Julian Byng

Answer 14

• as commander of the Canadian Corps from May 1916 to June 1917, Byng transformed the Canadians into a well-trained and effective striking force whose victory at Vimy was one of most spectacular “set-piece” attacks of the war. Byng was loved and trusted by his troops, who soon began to call themselves the “Byng Boys.” Within two months of this success, Byng was elevated to command the Third British Army.

Question 15

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Answer 15

• Wilhelm II (1859-1941), the German Kaiser (emperor) and king of Prussia from 1888 to 1918, was one of the most recognizable public figures of World War I (1914-18). He gained a reputation as a swaggering militarist through his speeches and ill-advised newspaper interviews. In late 1918, he was forced to abdicate. Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914, Wilhelm encouraged the Austrians to adopt an uncompromising line against Serbia, effectively writing them a ‘blank cheque’ for German support in the event of war. He appeared not to realise the chain reaction this would trigger.

Question 16

King George V

Answer 16

• he became king in 1910 and played an active role supporting the troops during World War I. Though lackluster in personality, he won the loyalty of the middle class and many in Great Britain with his steadfast dedication to his country.

Question 17

Manfred von Richthofen

Answer 17

• he was Germany’s most famous fighter ace of World War One. Richthofen was nicknamed the ‘Red Baron’ and he officially shot down 80 Allied aircraft, more than any other pilot during World War One.

Question 18

Nellie McClung

Answer 18

• she was a prominent political activist and writer who continued her work in the promotion of women’s suffrage and prohibition into the Great War.

Question 19

Oliver Martin

Answer 19

• As a lieutenant, he spent seven months in France and Belgium, where he survived a gas attack. In 1917, he qualified as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps and, the following year, he earned his pilot’s wings. He was a member of the Kanien’kehá:ka nation from the Six Nations Grand River Reserve, Martin served in the First and Second World Wars, gaining the rank of brigadier and was the highest ranking First Nations person of the Second World War

Question 20

R. Roblin

Question 21

Robert Borden

Answer 21

• he was Canada’s prime minister from 1911 to 1920. He was a part of the conservative party. To ensure victory for conscription, Borden introduced two laws to skew the voting towards the government. The law also gave female relatives of servicemen the vote. Thus, the 1917 election was the first federal election in which some women were allowed to vote.

Question 22

Roy Brown

Answer 22

• Canadian pilot Arthur Roy Brown is credited with killing Germany’s top First World War ace, Manfred von Richthofen, the famed “Red Baron.

Question 23

Sam Hughes

Answer 23

• Sir Sam Hughes, Canada’s Minister of Militia and Defence from October 1911 to November 1916, was the driving force behind Canada’s early war effort.

Question 24

Vittorio Orlando

Answer 24

• he was an Italian statesman, known for representing Italy in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference with his foreign minister Sidney Sonnino. He was also known as “Premier of Victory” for defeating the Central Powers along with the Entente in World War I.

Question 25

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 25

• he was a Russian lawyer, revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party and of the October Revolution. He was the first leader of the USSR and the government that took over Russia in 1917. Lenin’s ideas became known as Leninism.

Question 26

Wilfrid Laurier

Answer 26

• he was the first French prime minister of Canada. Throughout his whole term he had to try and keep both the English and French-speaking Canadians happy and it was a very tricky job.

Question 27

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 27

• Wilson led his country into World War I and became the creator and leading advocate of the League of Nations, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Peace. During his second term the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. The Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was passed and ratified. Although he was the leading advocate of the League of Nations he died before he could make a decision whether to join and in the end the USA did not join the League of Nations.