WW1

Question 0

Imperialism

Answer 0

Countries wanted more colonies and empires, this would grow themselves economically because of the more quantities they had

Question 1

Indirect causes to WW1

Answer 1

Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
Alliances

Question 2

Militarism

Answer 2

Countries relied on militarism to solve problems, this continuous grow of armies left countries paranoid

Question 3

Nationalism

Answer 3

There was a high competition against countries,the war provided An outlet for military competition

Question 4

Alliances

Answer 4

The two different alliances consisted of many countries, everyone would get involved

Question 5

Direct cause

Answer 5

Assassination of arch duke franz Ferdinand

Question 6

Triple entente

Answer 6

France Britain Russia

Question 7

Triple alliance

Answer 7

Germany Austria-Hungary and Italy

Question 8

Schlieffen plan

Answer 8

• Germany wanted to second war on two fronts
• used railroad through Belgium
• Russia mobilized to quickly
• French and English pushed back in the west

Question 9

Vimy ridge

Answer 9

• Arthur Curray lead the battle
• lots of planning went into the battle
• not a repeat of the battle of Sommes
• new tactic “creeping barrage “
• all Canadian soldiers

Question 10

Sommes

Answer 10

• known as the bloodbath
• Newfoundlanders died in a mini battle of Beaumont Hamel
• little territory was gained

Question 11

Yippee

Answer 11

• first time poisoned gas was used by the Germans
• Canadians held their ground by peeing on rags
• French ran

Question 12

Passchendaele

Answer 12

• a sea of mud

- 15000 Canadians died

Question 13

Main battle tactics

Answer 13

Trench warfare

Lots of dead lock

Question 14

Casualties

Answer 14

7-8 million soldiers

4-7 million civilians (first war where civilians had been targeted)

Question 15

Cost of war

Answer 15

10$ million an hour

Question 16

Black Canadians

Answer 16

• only in 1916 when Canadian death rates where high did they let African Americans help with the war
• they worked mostly in logging and digging trenches
• William white was the first black commissioner officer

Question 17

Aboriginal Canadians

Answer 17

• Francis Pegahmagabow was one of the deadliest shots in the whole war
• aboriginals didn’t get as many benefits or reward for bravery

Question 18

Enemy aliens

Answer 18

They were put in internment camps and forces to work

Question 19

Women

Answer 19

They now had opportunities to fill jobs usually filled by men they also developed the political rights to vote

Question 20

Victory bonds

Answer 20

Savings bonds sold to Canadians to help pay for the cost of the First World War

Question 21

Rationing

Answer 21

Dividing the amount of food to the number of men

Everyone receives the same portion size

Question 22

Income tax

Answer 22

The government absorbs a certain % of everyone’s salary, this is still present today

Question 23

Censorship

Answer 23

They checked letters so that no soldiers would leak plans back to relatives

Question 24

Dept

Answer 24

Canada had 5 times the amount of dept coming out of the war than going in

Question 25

War production

Answer 25

Canada relied mostly on women for war production | The war produced record amounts of food and supplies

Question 26

Pacifists

Answer 26

Someone who objects to the war due to the violence that comes with it

Question 27

Conscientious objectors

Answer 27

Someone who is against war on religious or moral beliefs

Question 28

Propaganda

Answer 28

This helped recruit soldiers | A strategic way to convince someone to do something that without it might not feel comfortable doing

Question 29

Wartime elections act

Answer 29

Sisters wives and daughters of people fighting overseas could vote

Question 30

Military voters act

Answer 30

Men and women overseas fighting were allowed to vote

Question 31

Military services act

Answer 31

Conscription

Question 32

War measure act

Answer 32

Allowed the federal cabinet to make quick unchallenged choices

Question 33

Conscription

Answer 33

Canadians didn't have the freedom to choose whether they wanted to fight or not This divided French and English Canada

Question 34

Shell shock

Answer 34

A mental disorder caused by stress of active war

Question 35

Nationalize

Answer 35

Being under the ownership or control of a nation

Question 36

Profiteer

Answer 36

Someone who makes excess profits on goods on short supply

Question 37

Spoils

Answer 37

Land, goods seized from a victim after a conflict (military)

Question 38

Sam Hughes

Answer 38

He supported the Ross rifle when the lee Enfield was better, eventually he was fired for profiteering

Question 39

Flavelle

Answer 39

The baron of bacon

Question 40

Halifax explosion

Answer 40

The IMO and the Mont Blane crashed into each other and caused a huge explosion, aid had to be sent but was slowed because of the snowstorm the next day

Question 41

U-boats

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Germany first created them, but the Canadians Americans and British developed strategies to avoid them like mine laying and heavily armed convoys

Question 42

Lusitania

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A civilian cruise ship shot down by a German u boat

Question 43

Harim Maxim

Answer 43

Invented the machine Gun and lee Enfield rifle

Question 44

Joseph Gliden

Answer 44

Invented barbed wire

Question 45

Nicholas Appert

Answer 45

Invented canning

Question 46

Armistice

Answer 46

Temporary suspension if hostility by warring parties | 11/11/18

Question 47

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 47

- Germany was stripped of wealth and military power and had to recognize the independence if Austria and Czechoslovakia - Germany was also given full responsibility for the war in the war guilt clause

Question 48

Spanish flu

Answer 48

- broke out as soldiers were returning home in 1919 | - 20 million people died

Question 49

Statute of Westminster

Answer 49

Declares that Canada is it's own nation