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What kind of social inequalities were happening?

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There was a large gap between the rich and the poor.

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How did the English feel about the French and vice versa? (2)

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  • The English felt very close to Britain at the time and were dominating the French.
  • The French felt farther away from Britain and always thought that the English were threatening to take away their culture and language.
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What is urbanization?

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When farmers moved towards or into the city for better jobs and other reasons.

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When did immigration spike?

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20th Century

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Where did the immigrants come from. (4)

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  • Mostly from Great Britain, UK and other places in Europe.
  • Some came from Ukraine and other countries.
  • There was much discrimination against people who weren’t white and English speaking.
  • Like the Komagata Maru filled with Japanese immigrants in Vancoiver.
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What helped bring the country such optimism?

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New inventions like the radio, planes, and cars. This also paved the path to war.

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Why did Canada have such optimism going into the 20th century? (3)

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  • Better humans
  • New inventions
  • WW1 brought them back to reality they had to use their new inventions to kill other people.
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When was the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand assassinated?

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June 28, 1914

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Who killed the Arch Duke and why? (3)

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  • Gavrilo Princip a member of the black hand.
  • The black hand was a Serbian terrorist group
  • They were going to shot the Arch Duke and then commit suicide but the police found them first.
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Who was the Arch Duke and where was he from.

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He was and heir to the Austria-Hungary thrown.

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What did the Ultimatum say? (4)

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  • Stop all hate red towards Austria-Hungary
  • Punish all those involved in the assassination
  • Let Austria-Hungary Officials into Serbia to help crush the black hand
  • Or go to war
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Did Serbia agree to the ultimatum? (2)

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  • No.

- Agreed to both first terms but not the last

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When did Austria-Hungary declare war on Serbia and what did this cause? (2)

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  • July 26, 1914

- This cause the world to go into war because of this petite incident and all the alliances made.

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What are the four reasons for war?

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  • Alliances
  • Militarism
  • Nationalism
  • Imperialism
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What countries are a part of the Triple Entente?

the allies

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Russia
Britain
France

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What countries are a part of the triple alliance (central powers)

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Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy

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Why were the alliance dangerous?

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Because it increased the chance for suspicion and fear between nations. This made a war between many countries more likely.

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What is Militarism?

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  • When countries think that an army can solve and resolve an issue instead making deals or ultimatums.
  • They had an arms race to see who could make the best ships, guns, and other weapons
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What is Nationalism?

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  • When people feel very strongly about there country.

- The people were willing to do anything for there country including going to war.

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What is Imperialism?

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  • When a country aims to add colonies, raw materials, and power.
  • They want to build a huge empire.
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What were the 2 major reaction from the French and English?

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  • English Canadians were rushing to volunteer to go to war because of their feelings of patriotism.
  • The French were opposite. the armies official language was English so the French felt excluded. This was another threat to their culture.
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What war the poles response to war.

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Poor we’re ready to sign up because of the pay, food, and somewhere to stay.

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Where were a lot of the volunteers coming from?

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Many people who are volunteering were coming from the city.

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How did the country react to immigrants?

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The army was discriminatory against the native Canadian population, black comedians as well as immigrants to Canada from other countries. Those immigrants had to check in with a parole officer and were rounded up into camps.

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Review trench warfare diagrams.
See Pg 84-85 in textbook
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What were the conditions in trench warfare?
- Sickness and disease spread rapidly. - Since it was very muddy the flesh between their toes started to run. This condition is called trench foot. - They also developed painful disease in their gums which is called trench mouth.
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What were some strategies that they used for trench warfare?
- They made the trenches zig zag so that enemy's couldn't take out a whole line. - They tried to make a sewage system but this failed most of the time. - Communication trenches lead front line trenches to the back ones.
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What type of weapon was used in the battle of Ypres?
They used gases. - First chlorine then that evolved to mustard gas. - Soldiers had respiratory problems, went blind and many even died because of these gases. - This also helped develop the gas mask.
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What was important about the battle of the Sommes?
It lasted a long time, many people died and it was poorly planned.
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What was important about the battle of Vimy Ridge?
- All four divisions of Canada's army fought the soldiers were well trained, and prepared. - The General Arthur Currie into account weather, wind and other conditions for the first time. - Canada got recognition on the world stage.
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What was so important about the Passchendaele battle?
There was lots of miles and the people and horses even sound. The Germans want to talk later and didn't advance the war very far. In the end it was a waste of time for the Canadian soldiers.
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What was important about the inventions and the contributions to World War I.
In 20th century people are optimistic about the new inventions but later realized that they are only used to kill people in World War I.
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What were the importance of the invention of planes to the war?
They were able to fly at work valuable weapon against trench warfare.
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What was the importance of tanks in the world war?
They were important because they could run right over trenches and will move quite quickly and where the new automotive vehicle of the war.
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What was the importance of the weapon poison gases against World War I.
They took out many soldiers at a time and could mess with their nervous system and make them blind a killed many soldiers each time they used it.
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What was so important about the German U-boats?
German submarines were very important during the war because they were able to blow up ships. In the end this caused many battles that the Germans won.
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What is the convoy system?
Countries were sending supplies the England and found that the German you ships would always blowouts their ships up with the goods on board. So they put the ship with the goods in the middle and surrounded it was smaller ships so that the Germans would have a harder time blowing them up.
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What was significant about the sinking of the ship Lusitania?
The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sunk by German U-boat. Many American passengers were on board in this cause them to go to war. The Americans had the idea that if no one bothered then they would not get involved.
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What was construction and why was it important?
Conscription was a law that force people who were able to go to war. The people protested against conscription. It became a huge issue in the election of 1971. Robert Borden thanks he'll lose so he makes act which will help him win.
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What was the military voters act?
The Military Voters Act allowed soldiers overseas to vote. This also allowed women of soldiers direct relative to vote.
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What was the wartime elections act?
This took away the voters who were born in any meat countries or who spoke the language of any country.
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The Treaty of Versaillies ended world war one what was important about it?
It put all the guilt and cost on Germany this put them in debt. This also may have started World War I as Germany was quite embarrassed and was forced to take all the blame.
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What are the three major terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
- Germany must give up all it's right and titles to its oversee possessions such as the colonies of Africa and Asia. - Germany must except a complete independence of Austria, Czechslovakia, and Poland. - Germany must except the responsibility for causing all the loss and damage that the allies and there citizens have suffered this is known as the war guilt clause.
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What is propaganda?
A statement that made an enemy luck anything less than human. It often uses fear or guilt of people to persuade them to do what they want.
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What was the role of women in the war?
Women took rolls in the factory and on the warfront as nurses in ambulance drivers. This start a movement for women's rights. Robert Borden was Prime Minister during the war he allowed women related to soldiers to vote.
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What's were enemy aliens?
Immigrants from countries that Canada was fighting against they were often discriminated against.
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What were victory bonds?
Victory bonds were when you lonely government money and they would give it back with high interest 5, 10 or 15 years later.

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