Chap two
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28,1914 | an event that triggered WWI
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| Triple Alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
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| Triple Entente | France, Russia, and Britain
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| militarism | a nation's policy of enlisting, training, equipping, and maintaining armed forces ready for war
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| balance of power | Germany had been rapidly expanding its army, and other European countries expanded their armies to maintain the balance of power
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| 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
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| English-speaking Canadians support the war | a strong patriotic feeling for Great Britain and the Empire
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| PM Borden | didn't offered all the volunteers to Britain
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| Canada's Minister of Militia Sam Hughes | put in charge of Canada's armament industry
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| War Measures Act | the act that PM Borden introduced which granted the Canadian government the authority to do everything necessary during the war time
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| 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
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| war technology | new weapons, machine guns, U-boats, poison gas
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| the Battle of Ypres | French and Canadian troops were blinded, burned, and killed when Germans used chlorine gas
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| the Battle of Somme | almost 85% of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment were killed or wounded (almost 24000 casualties)
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| the Battle of Vimy Ridge | the victory marked a Canadian milestone
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| Passchendaele | the 'victory' cost over 15000 Canadian lives in Belgium
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| Victory Bonds | Canadians were urged to buy Victory Bonds that they could cash in, with interest, when the war was over
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| Canana's economy booming | factories, emloyers, and wheat increased hugely during the war time
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| new role of women | women's contribution to the labour force(women were hired for all types of jobs); women were allowed to vote in some provinces
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| propaganda | designed by government to persuade people to support the war
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| the Halifax Disaster | a French vessel carrying dynamite was accidentally hit by another ship, which caused an explosion in Halifax's harbour
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| the conscription crisis | Borden introduced the Military Service Act, a bill that would make enlistment compulsory, after he came back from Vimy Ridge
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| 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
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| Czar Nicholas | Czar Nicholas of Russia was forced to abdicate in March of 1917 and a provisional Russian government was formed
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| US joins the War | after sinking of Lusitania by German U boats 1917
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| the sign of armistice | the war ended at 11 a.m., November 11,1918
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| Paris Peace Conference | the sign of Treaty of Versailles, the document that eventually set out the terms of the peace agreement in 1919
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| the league of nations | established by the Treaty of Versailles
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| "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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