Germany surprise attack on Franch at the beginning of the war through belgium using all their army to quickly wipe out france so they werent surrounded by TWO enemy countries
Britain, France, Russia
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
First plane armed with a syncronized Machine gun (made by germany)
similar to Fomker made by allies in 1917
Feeling of instense pride in ones country
it started ww1 because of a group called the black hand
Group created by Serbia to prevent them becoming a part of A-H, They were terrorists and assacianted A-H future leader to "permenantly" weaken them
a policy of strengthing a nation by controlling valuble land (colonies)
started ww1 by:
-great competion between nations to aquire colonies
-when an imperialst country declaed war all of its colonies are also at war
A belife that military should be used to settle distrbutes and the best way to prevent war is to be prepared for war.
Started WW1 by:
-countries nationalism would cause them to build military and neighbouring countries would be suspicious of this and do the same
-this started an arms race and all counties were looking for a way to use their military
agreement between nations for the purpose of protection and/or trades
this started ww1 by;
-countries making alliances caused fear for other countries so they made their own
-once a memeber of an alliance declares war all memebers are at war
the planned deliberated killing of a PUBLIC FIGURE.
-Archduke Franz Ferdenand assasinated by Black Hand
a strip of land that allowed poland to accsess the Baltic Sea
Canadian Commander in the battle Vimy Ridge
took place in 1915 it was canada vs germany, the first battle canada had a reputation of being brave, Canadas first battle with chlorine gas, canada won the battle
U-boats were equipped with steel hulls and were much stronger than british ships. Germany made these to sink ships going to Britain with things like food and materials
battle in 1917, germany vs canada, extremely muddy, too muddy to use the tatic "creeping barrage", was a win for canada
Commander of all British forces
1917, germany vs canada, used cameras to build model of the feilds, first time all canadian divisions fought together, canadas greatest win of the war
1916, Germany vs Canada, germans call it the bloodbath due to the large amount of deaths, designed to be the "big push" to win the war. Canada lost
Forces canadian men to sign up for war if they are between certain ages since canadas soliders were dying faster than men being enlisted
Compulsory for all males between the ages of 20-45 to serve armed forces. there were some execptions: religious belifes, if they were ill, or worked in a factory.
Gave men and women involved in the Canadian Expeditionary Force the right to vote.
gave female relatives of soliders the right to vote
British passenger ship germans sunk and almost 2000 passengers died. Several were american which brought america into the war. once the US joined the war it ended