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Imperialism

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

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Indirect causes to WW1

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Imperialism
Militarism
Nationalism
Alliances

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Militarism

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

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Nationalism

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

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Alliances

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

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Direct cause

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Assassination of arch duke franz Ferdinand

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Triple entente

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France Britain Russia

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Triple alliance

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Germany Austria-Hungary and Italy

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Schlieffen plan

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

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  • 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
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Sommes

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

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

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  • a sea of mud

- 15000 Canadians died

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Main battle tactics

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Trench warfare

Lots of dead lock

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Casualties

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7-8 million soldiers

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

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Cost of war

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10$ million an hour

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Black Canadians

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  • 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
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Aboriginal Canadians

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

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They were put in internment camps and forces to work

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Women

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

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Victory bonds

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

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Rationing

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Dividing the amount of food to the number of men

Everyone receives the same portion size

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Income tax

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

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Censorship

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

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Dept

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

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War production

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Canada relied mostly on women for war production

The war produced record amounts of food and supplies

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Pacifists

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

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Conscientious objectors

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Someone who is against war on religious or moral beliefs

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Propaganda

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This helped recruit soldiers

A strategic way to convince someone to do something that without it might not feel comfortable doing

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Wartime elections act

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Sisters wives and daughters of people fighting overseas could vote

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Military voters act

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Men and women overseas fighting were allowed to vote

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Military services act

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Conscription

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War measure act

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Allowed the federal cabinet to make quick unchallenged choices

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Conscription

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

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Shell shock

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A mental disorder caused by stress of active war

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Nationalize

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Being under the ownership or control of a nation

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Profiteer

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Someone who makes excess profits on goods on short supply

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Spoils

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

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Sam Hughes

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

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Flavelle

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The baron of bacon

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Halifax explosion

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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

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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

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Lusitania

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A civilian cruise ship shot down by a German u boat

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Harim Maxim

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Invented the machine Gun and lee Enfield rifle

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Joseph Gliden

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Invented barbed wire

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Nicholas Appert

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Invented canning

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Armistice

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Temporary suspension if hostility by warring parties

11/11/18

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Treaty of Versailles

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  • 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
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Spanish flu

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  • broke out as soldiers were returning home in 1919

- 20 million people died

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Statute of Westminster

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Declares that Canada is it’s own nation

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