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Chapter 2
must know
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28,1914 | the event that brought on WWI |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy |
| Triple Entente | France, Russia, and Britain |
| militarism | a nation's policy of enlisting, training, equipping, and maintaining armed forces ready for war |
| balance of power | Germany had been rapidly expanding its army, and other European countries expanded their armies to maintain the balance of power |
| Canada was automatically at war with the rest of the British Empire after Britain declared war on Germany | Canada had become a political union in 1867, but Britain still controlled the foreign policy of all its dominions |
| English-speaking Canadians support the war | a strong patriotic feeling for Great Britain and the Empire |
| PM Borden | didn't offered all the volunteers to Britain |
| Canada's Minister of Militia Sam Hughes | put in charge of Canada's armament industry |
| War Measures Act | the act that PM Borden introduced which granted the Canadian government the authority to do everything necessary during the war time |
| recent immigrants from Germany and Austro-Hungarian Empire | under the War Measures Act, they had to carry special identity cards and were sent to internment camps |
| war technology | new weapons, machine guns, U-boats, poison gas |
| the Battle of Ypres | French and Canadian troops were blinded, burned, and killed when Germans used chlorine gas |
| the Battle of Somme | almost 85% of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment were killed or wounded (almost 24000 casualties) |
| the Battle of Vimy Ridge | the victory marked a Canadian milestone |
| passchendaele | the 'victory' cost over 15000 Canadian lives in Belgium |
| Victory Bonds | Canadians were urged to buy Victory Bonds that they could cash in, with interest, when the war was over |
| Canana's economy booming | factories, emloyers, and wheat increased hugely during the war time |
| new role of women | women's contribution to the labour force(women were hired for all types of jobs); women were allowed to cote in some provinces |
| all canadian women won the right to vote in federal elections in 1918 | recognition of women's patriotic effort during the war |
| propaganda | designed by government to persuade people to support the war |
| the Halifax Disaster | a French vessel carrying dynamite was accidentally hit by another ship, which caused an explosion in Halifax's harbour |
| the conscription crisis | Borden introduced the Military Service Act, a bill that would make enlistment compulsory, after he came back from Vimy Ridge |
| French-English Canadian relations | the relations between French- and English-speaking Canadians became strained over restrictions in the use of French in schools outside Quebec |
| Czar Nicholas | Czar Nicholas of Russia was forced to abdicate in March of 1917 and a provisional Russian government was formed |
| US joins the War | after sinking of Lusitania by German U boats 1917 |
| the sign of wrmistice | the war ended at 11 a.m., November 11,1918 |
| Paris Peace Conference | the sign of Treaty of Versailles, the document that eventually set out the terms of the peace agreement in 1919 |
| the league of nations | established by the Treaty of Versailles |
| "collective security" | if one member state of the League came under attack, all members were to cooperate in suppressing the aggressor |
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