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WW1 Began
WW1 was declaired in France after the assasination of Franz Ferdinand. The countrys that took place in this war were Canada, Britan, France, and Russia on one alliance, and Germany, Astria-Hungary, and Italy on the other -
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WW1
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War At Sea
Great Britain declaired war against Germany in Eroupe, Germany then brought Canadian troops. Nova Scotia, Halifax helped the troops by having parts to help fewer ships to be suck by the u-boats. Canada had more than 100 ships which helped their allies retrive supplies. -
Blockade
Blockade:
tryed to prevent supplies from reaching the enemy -
Convoy System
Allies would set up a convoy system to stop the enemy from blockade and would sink their u-boats that would sending supplies. -
Second battle of Ypres
Germany suprise attacked the British this took place in Ypres, Britan. In this war they started using chorine gas. The Canadians stoped the German army to advance, By doing this is shows that the Canadian amry is relible to their allies. -
Battle of the Somme
This war was between French and the British soldiers at the somme river. 80,000 Canadians faougt in this war. Battle of the Somme help the Canadians change their tactics and make many casualties in the trenchies. -
Battle of Vimy Ridge
The Battle of Vimy Ridge took place in France.The battle was a turning point in Canada because the Canadians faught together for the first time. Canada won which gave them new hopes for allies. In this war they used heavy guns that fired sheels and machine guns. -
Conscription: The Great War
Conscription: A list of people that have to go to war no matter what the military would force you.This mostly happened in Quebec, the Canadian prime minister Robert Borden was the one that conscriped the French Canadians because alot of people were dieing and needed more citizens to fill in their places. If you got conscriped you would recive letters ordering them to report for duty. -
Billy Bishop (war in the air)
Billy Bishop had the third greatest number of air victories during the first wourld war. In June Bishop orginized the Royal Canadian air force at only the age of 23. Bishop was one of the few people who knew how to fly a plane in WW1. He risked his life to help the military buit he did kill lots of people including the german aldotros. Billy wasnt very trusted because he had a history of lieing and he would go on alot a missions by himself. -
WW1 came to an end
At 5:00 on November 11, 1918 the war came to an end and Germany won the war against the Britan. Now every year on November 11 everyone celebrates remembrance day to rember the soldiers who faught for us in the war.
