WW1

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

A patriotic feeling, efforts or principles

Question 2

Triple Alliance

Answer 2

A secret agreement between Austria-Hungary, Germany and Italy

Question 3

Triple Entente

Answer 3

the understanding linking the Russian Empire, the French Third Republic, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente

Question 4

Militarism

Answer 4

A desire/belief of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests

Question 5

What is propaganda?

Answer 5

A way of getting people to do something they might not usually do such as join the war

Question 6

What was Canada’s support for the war?

Answer 6

Canada raised money for the soldiers fighting

Question 7

Why did volunteers join?

Answer 7

To fight/ support their country and pride

Question 8

Were all Canadians welcomed to participate?

Answer 8

No, only white people were wanted, if you were not white then there was a long process

Question 9

How many people initially volunteered for the CEF (Canadian Expeditionary Force)?

Answer 9

They asked for 25,000 and got 32,000

Question 10

What did the War Measures Act enable the Canadian government to do?

Answer 10

• Drafted the War Measures Act

- Allows anything that’s needed for defence, warfare, peace and order

Question 11

Describe trench warfare

Answer 11

A type of combat where opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other

Question 12

Describe the conditions the soldiers endured living in the trenches

Answer 12

Loss, diseases, rats, rotting bodies

Question 13

What new weapons were used in WW1?

Answer 13

Rifles, machine guns, barbed wire, tanks, airships, aircrafts, poison gas, artillery, U-boats and Q-ships

Question 14

How many women served?

Answer 14

Hundreds of women served as nurses/ ambulance drivers

Question 15

How did the Canadian government pay for the war effort?

Answer 15

Victory bonds, taxes and borrowing

Question 16

What was the Halifax explosion?

Answer 16

• The largest man-made explosion, killed 20,000 civilians, 9000 wounded
• two ships carrying explosives exploded when they hit each other

Question 17

What were enemy Aliens and how are they treated?

Answer 17

War broke out in Europe, Canada had German, Austrian, Hungarian people who were residents/citizens of Canada.
They were treated unfairly, locked up and fired from jobs

Question 18

Conscription crisis and our country

Answer 18

Volunteers – not keeping up with the number of men killed or wounded so conscription was proposed

Question 19

What is conscription?

Answer 19

Compulsory military service – forcing men to join the war even though Canada is a democracy

Question 20

How did Prime Minister Borden introduce conscription?

Answer 20

Military service bill in 1917 - made conscription compulsory for males 20 to 35

Question 21

Who was exempted from conscription?

Answer 21

Men in wartime production jobs, sick, pacifists – not forced to join

Question 22

How did it divide country?

Answer 22

English Canadians thought quebec was not supporting the war but quebec did not have same ties as the English did towards Britain.
French culture broken from France and language was taken away from schools

Question 23

Who opposed conscription?

Answer 23

Pacifists, French-Canadians, Liberal party, Laurier

Question 24

What did Borden do to ensure his reelection?

Answer 24

Asked Laurier and liberal party to join conservatives, form a group/government to show Canada’s commitment to win war

Question 25

What kind of jobs did women have during the first war?

Answer 25

Helped recruit men, making weapons, farm working, nursing, writing papers

Question 26

What happened to working women after the war?

Answer 26

They were told to go home, and they were fired

Question 27

Five points that showed that the first world war helped to liberate women

Answer 27

First time women got to work, treated with more respect/rights, earned money, had opportunities, got to work

Question 28

Five points that show that the first world war did not help to liberate women

Answer 28

Some women hated their jobs, did not get married, worked in a pact smoky factory doing dangerous jobs, the men were off at war so the woman had to fill in their jobs, lost their jobs when men came back

Question 29

Arms race

Answer 29

a competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons

Question 30

Sam Hughes

Answer 30

Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence during World War I

Question 31

Canadian Expeditionary Force

Answer 31

The designation of the field force created by Canada for service overseas in the war

Question 32

Lt. General Arthur Currie

Answer 32

The first Canadian Commander

Question 33

Stalemate

Answer 33

a position where no action can be taken

Question 34

No Mans Land

Answer 34

The land in between to allies trenches that doesn't belong to anyone

Question 35

Total War

Answer 35

An unrestricted war

Question 36

Billy Bishop

Answer 36

He was the top Canadian flying ace and Victoria Cross recipient of the First World War

Question 37

Victoria Cross

Answer 37

a decoration that was awarded for conspicuous bravery in the British Commonwealth armed services that was instituted by Queen Victoria in 1856

Question 38

The Hundred Days

Answer 38

a session of Congress from March 9, 1933 to June 16, 1933, called by President Franklin Roosevelt, in which important social legislation was started

Question 39

Halifax Explosion

Answer 39

The biggest man made explosion in history - the collision of to ships carrying explosives

Question 40

Enemy Aliens

Answer 40

A native person not from that country

Question 41

War Measures Act

Answer 41

A federal statute adopted by Parliament in 1914

Question 42

Censorship

Answer 42

the suppression or prohibition of any part of books, films, news, etc

Question 43

Victory Bonds

Answer 43

a bond issued by the government during or after a major war

Question 44

Income Tax

Answer 44

An annual tax given by the government

Question 45

Military Service Act

Answer 45

An act of 1917 was a controversial law that allows the conscription of Canadian men for service in the final years of the First World War

Question 46

Conscientious objectors

Answer 46

A person who objects to fighting in the war

Question 47

Union government

Answer 47

an organization of workers formed to protect the rights and interests of its members

Question 48

Suffragettes

Answer 48

Women fighting for the right to vote by protesting

Question 49

Wartime Elections Act

Answer 49

A bill that Robert Borden passed at the time of the conscription crisis

Question 50

The Armistice

Answer 50

An agreement made by both sides in a war to stop fighting

Question 51

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 51

a document signed by Germany and the allied powers that ended the war

Question 52

Paris Peace Conference

Answer 52

A meeting of the allied victors to set peace terms

Question 53

Fourteen points

Answer 53

14 goals of the united states

Question 54

Reparations

Answer 54

Making amends for people who have done wrong

Question 55

War Guilt Clause

Answer 55

Another name for the Treaty of Versailles

Question 56

Shell shock

Answer 56

A psychological disturbance from long exposure to the war

Question 57

Robert Borden

Answer 57

a Canadian lawyer and politician

Question 58

Main Cause of the War

Answer 58

MAIN - militarism - alliance - imperialism - nationalism

Question 59

Main Cause of the War

Answer 59

MAIN - militarism - alliance - imperialism - nationalism