First+World+War-terms-battles-people

//__Key Terms__// __Alliance system__ __Conscription__ - Compulsory enlistment into the armed forces - Canada did not have conscription until they ran out of soldiers and began drafting citizens to serve - Eventually, new government rolled in and forced conscription upon Canadian citizens, which didn't end well with the French Canadians __Enemy Aliens:__
 * triple alliance vs triple antente
 * Italy left triple alliance
 * Canada joined triple entente in 1916
 * **Many injured men were sent back to battle**
 * **Canada had a very small amount of capable soldiers**
 * **Borden went back on his promise of no conscription**
 * 1) A person living in a country that is at war with his/her native country
 * 2) anyone who had not taken out citizenship and was a citizen of a country at war with Canada was considered an enemy alien.
 * 80,000 enemy aliens where registered during WW1

__Profiteering:__ __Total War:__ - the complete mobilization of all available resources and population - WWI and WWII were total wars - little or no differentiation between combatants and non-combatants __Trench Warfare:__ -Oposing forces attack from a permanent system of trenches. -Trenches protected by barbed wire entanglements. -First used in 1915 by Sebastienle prestre de vauban in the 17th century.
 * 1) Make or seek to make an excessive or unfair profit. (illegally)
 * 2) profiteers were widely asserted to have existed by both the left, and the right (both sides)
 * 3) sell weapons to sovernments and the semi-criminal black marketeers.
 * 4) carry the implication of influence and power used to actively cause wars for personal gains.
 * **No rules for weapons**
 * **War rules don’t apply**
 * **Anyone can join**

//__Key Battles (put in chronological order)__// __Schlieffen Plan__ -German strategic plan for victory in a possible future war. -used diffrent preparation speeds of diffrent countries to their advantage. -was created by Alfed von Schlieffen and was executed to near victory.

__2nd Battle at Ypres:__ - October 1914 - Hitler won the highest honour in German military for saving a wounded comrade - in the area surrounding Ypres 1.7 million people were killed or wounded __Battle of the Somme__ - July 1st, November 18, 1916 on either side of the river Somme in France - One of humanity's bloodiest battles, both sides suffered 200,000 casualties - Canadians dominated against German army, advancing & capturing __Vimy Ridge__
 * **120 tons of chlorine gas**
 * **2000 Canadians died**
 * **Took place between July 1st nov 18 1916**
 * **The river somme france**
 * **Was between the british and germans**
 * 1) Took place April 9th-12th 1917
 * 2) Canadian forces overtook the German high ground
 * 3) Battleground is now a memorial park

__Passchendaele__
 * July 1917 to November 1917
 * 44,800 casualties
 * Britain, Australia, Canada and india fought in it against German empire

__100 days:__ series of attacks made along the western front.
 * 1) The last 100 days of WWI, when Canada was called in to help Belgium (1918)
 * 2) They were put at the front line to warn the enemy that an attack was coming + scare them.

//__Key Personalities (put in Alphabetical order)__// __Billy Bishop__ - Royal Canadian Air Force/Air Marshal - 18 awards and 72 victories - In WW2, Bishop was instrumental in setting up and promoting the British Air Training Plan __Roy Brown:__ A Canadian captain of Royal Air Force during WWI
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 * **Born feb.8 1894 with 10 years of service**
 * **Received over 16 medals, including Victoria Cross**
 * **Served as lieutenant colonel and air Marshall**
 * 1) Died in 1944 from heart attack after war. (age 51)
 * 2) Born in Carlton, Ontario, Canada.
 * 3) Won a distinguished service cross award.
 * 4) Nickname: Browney

__Arthur Currie:__

- Canadian General during WWI - was born in 1875 and died in 1933 - First Canadian to attain the rank of full general
 * **Nickname was “Guts and Gaiters”**
 * **Born in Strathroy Ontario**
 * **First Canadian to attain the rank of full general**

Jeremiah Jones:


 * heroic man
 * surrendered german soldiers for his captain
 * amazing soldier in world war 1

Francis Pegahmagabow -Most effective sniper win WW1 with over 300 confirmed kills. -Won 3 military medals, 1914-1915 star, British war medal, and a voctory medal. -Served from 1914-1919 and lived to be 61 years old.