History

• Prussia


  Large part of Russia (including Germany and Poland)
• Alsace Lorraine


  Part of France that used to be Germany.
• Dual Entente


  Alliance between Russia and France
• Splendid Isolation 


  Britain was going to stay out of the other nation’s business.
• The Panther


  A German gunboat sent to Morocco
• Two Power Standard


  British should be = to 2 countries navy’s put together
• Conscription 


  Legally calling man to fight
• Mobilization 


  Getting all soldiers ready to fight and to the front line
• Gavrilo Princip


  Secret Serbian Terrorist
• Archduke Franz Ferdinand 


  Austro Hungary (killed by Gavrilo Princip)
• The Blank Check


  Germany gave to Austria Hungary, so they knew Germany would stand by them no matter what
• Treaty of London


  To bring Italy into the triple entente
• Who surrendered first


  Russia because of internal war
• Alsace Lorrraine was returned to France
• Black Battalion 


  Group of black soldiers
• We needed soldiers, but black people could not fight
• Black soldiers were not given healthcare like the other soldiers
• Rights at home for black soldiers did not change dispite their service to the war
• The Chinese had everything separated from white Canadians
• Where do they think the Spanish flu came from

  Pigs then transferred to humans
• Why is it called the Spanish flu

  Because Spain was the only one who wrote about it
• More died from the Spanish flu then from the actual war
• During the Spanish flu, factories didn’t shut down, because the people at war still needed stuff
• The stronger people were, the worse the flu was for them because their body fought back harder
• The average age to live went from 51 to 39 during the Spanish flu
• 50-100 million people died from the flu
• Germans were the first to pick where their trenches went, so they had the nicer ones
• 15% of sickness in the British army came from trench fever, which was gotten from the lice
• lice was hard to get rid of
• They used Chlorine Gas in the battle of Ypres
• Canadians who wanted to fight had to go to training camps first
• Lusitania sinking resulted in America coming out of isolation, and joining in the war
• The Convoy system was to protect supply boat from the German boats
• Buying Victory bonds meant lending money to the government to help pay for the war
• Farmers and religious people did not like conscription
• The Wartime Elections Act made it so females could vote since they were doing so much for the war
• Canada’s largest military camp was in Velcartier in Quebec
• Women had jobs such as nurses, clerks, telephone operators, and factory workers during ww1
• The Victoria Cross was awarded to brave people. Only 53 people got it
• Franz Ferdinand was from Austro-Hungary