world war 1 exam

militarism

A nation’s policy of enlisting, training, equipping, and maintaining armed forces ready for war

Imperialism

The policy of one nation acquiring, controlling, or dominating another country or region

Nationalism

Devotion to and support of one’s culture and nation, sometimes resulting in the promotion of independence.

Triple allience

The alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy prior to the First World War.

Triple entente

The alliance of France, Britain, and Russia prior to the First World War.

Who opposed joining the war?

The French in Canada, farmers in the Praries, bc labour movement

Enemy alien

A national living in a country that is at war with his/her homeland.

War measures act

An act that gave the federal government special powers during wartime, including the right to detain people without laying charges

CEF

Canadian Expeditionary Force.

Convoy system

A group of ships traveling together and protected by an armed force.

Victory bonds

Bonds issued by the Canadian government to support the war effort.

Conscription

Mandatory enlistment for military service.

machine guns

invented by the germain’s BIg Birtha launched shells 25km upward and 120km away

dirigibles

invented by the germany and was used to scouting and bomb enemies

chemical warfare

first used by germany to kill soldiers in the trenches

tanks

invented by Britain to crush barbed wire

trench warfare

used for defence

what where the conditions of the trenches

cold and damp, often flooded, muddy, stinking cesspoolsover run by rats 

Battle of Somme

bloodiest battle with 1 million casualties on both sides 24000 of them being canadians

Battle of Ypres

happened in Belgium City germans used chlorine gas

Battle of Vimy Ridge

given maps, vimy glide(100 yards every 3 minutes), miniature model of the area, raillway to transport explosives, 3500 men killed 7000 wounded, big milestone for canada

Battle of Passchenaele

1917 retake Passchendaele Ridge in Belgium victory cost 1500 canadian lives and nearly half a million soldiers on both sides

u-boats

used desal engines and traveled faster on the surface than most ships

what is the convoy system?

was used to protect ships and to use sonar to detect the u-boats

Douglas Haig

general incharge of leading the battle of somme

Julian Byng

general developed strategies and trained troops well rehearsing there movements thoroughly

Arthur Currie

general former relator from Victoria retook passchendaele 

shell committee

failed at overseeing the manufacturing of the shells

imperial munition board

succeeded to build ships, airplanes, and shells

roles of women JOBS

fishing, farmers, munition factories, factory workers

roles of women at HOME

organized comities to send food and letters overseas

roles of women VOTING

they got the right to vote first in 1916 Manitoba, Alberta, Saskatchewan, 1917 Ontario, British Columbia, 1918 federal elections

treaty of versailles

the document that set out the terms of the peace agreement in 1919

DIKTAT

Ger5man wor5d for dictate. the terms of the Tready of Versailles prevented from negotiating the terms

woodrow wilson 

American President who proposed a fourteen point plan for peace that emphasized forgiveness 

spanish flu

biggest effected Europe killing about 22 million people world wide

league of nations

made from nations throughout the world

examples of militarism

germany rapidly expanded there army and others did for a balance of power, britain built the largest battle ship the HMS Dreadnought

examples of imperialism

Belgium, Italy, Britain, Germany, and France challenged each other  for rights to oversea territories and resources in Africa, Asia, and the pacific 

example of nationalism

often lead to racism

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

crown prince of Austria-Hungary, visited Sarajevo Bosnia where the black hand terrorist group targeted him for assassination and Garilo princip shot and killed him and his wife Sophie

Sam Hughes

Minister of Militia he was Canadas amendment industry where he created the shell committee manufacturing shells. his contracts worth 170 million but only 5.5 million worth was made, cardboard boots, ross rifle