| Resolution XI | Gives colonies autonomy and recognizes them on a national scale, |
| Triple/central alliance | Germany, Italy, Austria/Hungary |
| Triple Entente | Russia, France, Great Britain, Serbia |
| Militarism | building up military forces weaponry and armored forces, millions spent building up forces, wanted to rule the seas with dreadnaughts |
| Nationalism | deep patriarchy or loyalty to home country, raced to have largest army or navies, drove the need for oversea colonies and to keep existing colonies |
| patriotism | deep feeling of loyalty to ones home country |
| colony | colonies supported nations with raw materials, and allowed them to station armies overseas |
| Imperialism | the need or want to gain more colonies for the mother country |
| Republican Govt | power is held by the people and their elected representatives |
| Conscientious Objectors | someone who refused to enlist in the war because it went against their personal or religious beliefs. |
| League of nations | the group formed after the Paris peace conference whos objective was to maintain world peace so no wars broke out again |
| Autonomy | The act of a colony gaining freedom from its mother county and becoming a nation |
| reoperations | reoperations are things the losing country would give to the winning countries to the winning countries to make up some of the costs of the war |
| Resolution XI | Gives colonies autonomy and recognizes them on a national scale, |
| Gavrilo Princip | He assonated Franz Ferdinand and ended up causing world war one, |
| Arthur Currie | former real estate agent no education past high school, no professional military service, troops admired him, good teacher and trusted his men, currie's strategy played a key role in Vimy ridge |
| Sam Hughes | made his friends colonels, issued equipment that was sub quality and fell apart so that Hughes could make money, Gave the Canadian troops the Ross Rifle which overheated frequently and was terrible in trench warfare, cannon shells poorly made and didn't explode |
| Julian Byng | Byng was a professional soldier all his life and an avid student of military tactics for thirty years, very good with strategy, informed Currie to look over past mistakes at the Bloody Somme so it didnt repeat itself |
| Woodrow Wilson | USA president that led America into the war, Leading creator of the League of Nations |
| Douglas Haig | believed cavalry charges were the answer to defeating the Germans, General for the battle of the Somme attacked Germans at the strongest point, gained little ground |
| Kaiser Wilhelm the second | Germanies leader, war started by trying to help Austria/Hungarians in 1918 he fled to the Netherlands |
| Czar Nicholas | Russian leader during the war |
| Henri Bourassa | wanted Canada to be its own country separate from Britain |
| Halifax | mont blanc was carrying alot of explosives and it collided with another ship causing an explosion that killed 2000 and left 9000 homeless, Canadians first look into what war was really like |
| Ypres | april 22, 1915, Germans used chlorine gas to attack, French troops fled but Canadians stayed behind and held position denying Germans the advancement |
| Bloody Somme | July, 1916, attacked German front line for 5 months, gained barely any group, heavy casualties, cavalry charges used because Douglas Haig thought that was how wars were supposed to be fought |
| Vimy Ridge | April 9, 1917, Canadian forces attacked Vimy ridge after much preparation, Canada captured import Ridge after Brits and French failed, Julian Byng in charge |
| No mans land | space in-between the two trenches |
| Uboat | developed by France, Russia, Britain, us, can attack underwater with torpedo's, used to cut off resources from countries, Germans number one weapon |
| machine gun | 1914, required a crew of 4-6 operators could fire 400-600 rounds in a minute overheated fast most effective weapon overall |
| tank | made moving warfare possible, could go over barber wire and across trenches, protected troops, conditions terrible for driver |
| cavalry charge | charging on horses across no mans land, used by General haig in the battle of the Somme, old fashioned way of fighting |
| blockade | surrounding someplace with U-boats or land forces to cut off its resource supply |
| propaganda | spreading false information or statistics about battles or portraying the oppositions to make people want to enlist more |
| chlorine gas | used by Germans in Ypres, can be combated with gasmasks, urine soaked cloths, or cotton pads soaked in bicarbonate |
| Wartime elections act | wives of soldiers could vote, first time women were allowed to vote and segwayed into all women getting the right to vote |
| conscription | meant that every man able had to go to war, the public was furious because Borden promised he wouldn't make mandatory military service |
| War measures act | gave the government the power to take away German, or Austrian/ Hungarian civilians rights until the war finished |
| Supremacy of the seas | the battle for control of the seas between Germans and the British |
| union govt | Borden created an union govt to get support from other parties to win the election |
| Treaty of Versailles | the treaty that signified the end of the war and Germanys surrender to the Allied forces |
| Russian Revolution | the Russians withdraw from the war and have a revolution resulting in the government being overthrown and a communist government starting in Russia |
| Canadas 100 days | refers to the sequence of attacks made by Canadian forces in a span of 100 days |
| rationing | done by citizens who didn't enlist, cutting down the consumption of food and resources so the rest could go to the soldiers |
| Canadian Patriotic Fund | The fund was established to give financial and social assistance to soldiers' families |
| Victory Bond | you could buy some of these to support the soldiers in the war, appealed to many because it meant that you got money back after the war was over and you could feel like you were making a difference in the war without having to enlist |
| intensive farming | the act of using all the crops to farm because it would make more money, but it would eventually run the soil out of nutrients meaning in a couple years crops wouldn't grow |
| English Canadians | Eager to prove loyalty towards Britain wants to enlist and fight |
| French Canadians | believed that they had already done enough for Britain and that the war was Britain's problem not Canadas, didn't want to enlist |
