ww1

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Suffragists

people advocating for womens votes

Womans rights after marriage

all rights are lost and considered mans property.

womens rights pre 1914

Divorce rare, Limited work opportunities.

Canadas international relations

Independent but strong ties with britain = british affairs.

Minorities

Chinese, South/East Asians, Eastern European, Japanese + Indigenous faced discrimination and limited rights in society during and after WW1.

Indigenous treatment

Residential schools, Treaties and Reserves. = Assimilation of their culture.

Economy

Lacked rights, bad conditions and low wages.

Trade Unions

People pressing for better rights, conditions and pay.

5 causes of War

M- Militarism A- Alliance N- Nationalism I-Imperialism A-Assassination.

CEF

Canadian Expeditionary Force (WW1 Canadian troops)

War Measures Act

Gives government emergency powers to act during times of war

Haebus Corpus

The right of a detained person to be brought before a judge to decide if the arrest was correct or not.

No mans land

The area the trenches of 2 teams where many soldiers died.

Schlieffen Plan

A plan developed by the Germans to invade France through Belgium before Russia arrived.

War of Attrition

A strategy where two opponents see who can outlast the other the longest by exhausting their resources and manpower until one team wins.

Trench Warfare

A brutal form of combat during WW1 characterized by soldiers fighting from deep ditches, resulting in high casualties and a stalemate on the Western Front.

Reconnaisance

Military search or exploration

Negative affects of the War Measures Act.

Limited freedom, censored mail, suspended haebus corpus and intervened in the economy, introduced interment camps with the detained. Some were randomly arrested/ deported.

Positive effects of the war effort

People came together all over Canada, developed canadian identity, CEF was independent from the Brits, autonomy.

Negative developments bc of war effort

War profiteering, mass casualties, corruption.

Who were allowed to join the war effort and who couldnt?

Many English Canadians who were British enlisted for the patriotic cause. Women were considered too frail and were supposed to work as nurses/ambulance drivers. Aboriginals, Africans and Japanese + Chinese were not allowed to join but were later allowed.

Perspectives towards war

English Canadians (Brit) support war due to patriotism, many people who were employed could escape financial hardships, gain benefits. Some Canadians believed they shouldn’t fight because they were ‘independent’.

Pros of Wars Measures Act

Necessary for security, defence, peace, order and welfare of the country.

Sam Hughes

Minister of Militia and Defence that created shitty weapons to profit himself.

New Tech compared to past wars

machine guns, artillery, airplanes(with guns and bombs), Armoured tanks = trench warfare obselete.

4 major battles Canada was involved in

Vimy Bridge, The battle of Somme, The battle of passchendaele, The second war of ypres

vimy bridge signficance

key position near somme, surounds countryside, supply routes, +enemy positions.

Somme signifi

Fought against Germans by Brits and Canadians, lasted 5 months, 1.25m casualties, 90% of Canadians died.

Passchendaele