• People reduced amount of food and waste
• Meat, butter, sugar and bread
Propaganda
• Encouraged young men to enlist
• Posters
• Newspaper stories
Trench Warfare
Dug out
• The hole were you can rest and sleep
• Extremely muddy conditions
Over the Top
• Going over the trench towards no man's land
• The goal is to jump into enemy's trenches with rifles
Trench Foot
• Condition from standing in a water for a long time
• Feet swell to two or three times
•People can completely stop feeling their legs
No Man's Land
• No Man's land - the battle field between trenches
• An area that no one owns or controls
Canadian Military Role
Somme
• First time when the tanks were used
• 24 000 of Canadians were killed or wounded
• Newfoundland regiment was whipped out in just 22 minutes
Passchendaele
• The nightmare of mud
• More than 16 000 casualties
•In the end it was captured by Canadians
Vimy Ridge
• First Canadian General
• More than 10 000 casualties and 4 000 deaths
•Creeping Barrage
Battle of Ypres
• First time when the chlorine gas was used
• 2 000 of Canadians were killed and 4000 wounded
Racism in the Military
Enemy Aliens
• Immigrants from the enemy countries (Germany, Austria-Hungary)
• Were not allowed to join Canadian forces
Indigenous Soliders
• Joined Canadian forces in 1916
• Had good aiming skills
•Francis Pegahmagabow
#2 Construction Battalion
• Battalion only for the men of colour
• Built trenches, roads, bridges, laid barbed wire and defused lan
•Received an equipment of a really bad quality
Causes of WWI
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
• Gavrilo Princip plotted to kill Franz F and his wife Sophia
• Austria-Hungary blames Serbia
•Spark to WWI
Nationalism
• Created competition between nations
•In the end it was captured by Canadians
Imperialism
• Country extends its power into other territories
• Colony building
•Increased tension
Alliance system
• An agreement to defend each other in case of war
• Triple Alliance
•Triple Entante
Militarism
• Country uses military to gain power and achieve its goals
• Arms race between Germany and France
•Naval race between Germany and Britain
