CANADA’S RESPONSE TO THE WAR * Canadians volunteered to join the war because they believed it would be over by Christmas. Others joined because they were unemployed and the war would bring them out of hardships. Women were considered too frail. Women worked as nurses and ambulance drivers. Canadian officials did not accept aboriginal people and were reluctant to take African and Japanese. * Sam Hughes was appointed as the Minister of Militia. The army formed by the Canadians was called CANADIAN
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executed as a result of indiscipline. The strict British disciplinary code subjected their military force into high looses. In contrast to that‚ the Australian military experienced a problem with discipline at the front line‚ particularly in the late 1918 when the Battalion was against returning to the line. Therefore‚ the element of discipline was problematic even away from the frontline. Unlike other forces‚ the Australian forces’ code of conduct did not put a lot of emphasis on severe disciplinary
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(ceasefire) came into effect at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The name "Armistice Day" was given to the date when a truce was declared and fighting ceased. Strictly speaking the war ended for Germany with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919. (That was exactly five years after Austria-Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo). At 11 a.m. on November 11‚ 1918 a ceasefire came into effect with Germany. A formal state of war between
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as a munition worker. The importance of women in the workforce had grown dramatically‚ filling many jobs brought into existence by wartime need. The number of women in employment in Britain increased from three million in 1914 to five million by 1918. One of the most highly employed jobs at the time was working in highly dangerous munition factories where one million women were employed‚ attracted by higher pay to work in production of munitions towards the war. There was also increasing demand
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The armistice of November 11th 1918 gave both the allies and the central powers time to reflect on the effects of the war throughout Europe. Before the start of the war in 1914 countries promoted the idea that war was a great thing and to fight for your country was very honourable. But‚ by 1918 people across Europe saw for the first time how horrible war actually was. Where‚ in the past‚ people had only been exposed to the idea of war by the pro-war propaganda of various governments‚ Europeans were
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In 1918‚ he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society‚ the second Indian admitted to the Royal Society‚ following Ardaseer Cursetjee in 1841. At the age of 31‚ Ramanujan was one of the youngest Fellows in the history of the Royal Society and he was elected for his investigation in “Elliptical functions and the Theory of Numbers.” On 13 October 1918‚ he was the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College‚ Cambridge
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resources available American Expeditionary force Headed by John J. Pershing Found under US command leaders Cooperated with the Allied Forces Human supplies of ½ million US troops for battle weary F and UK troops (did not display presence until 1918) 4 million Allied troops with joint US troops against 2.5 million G troops Key role in Spring Offence and broke the Hindenburg Line Availability of extended loans Impact was slow as US was not prepared for war for years prior to its involvement
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especially from the Unite states and the decline of trade (source 3). The purpose of this essay is to discuss about the causes of the long and deep depression of the British economy after World War I. World War I World War I took place between 1914s and 1918s. In August 1914‚ the War engulfed Europe which causes around 9 million soldier deaths and another 20 million wounded. At the beginning of the war‚ it seems to be just a small conflict between Austria-Hungary and Serbia but it spread rapidly (source
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B6: Russia in Revolution‚ 1914-1924 What impact did the First World War have on Russia? The war was greeted with more celebrations than in any other country in Europe. The Russians were so keen to get at the Germans that they actually had armies advancing into Germany after only two weeks. This took the Germans by surprise. The Germans had to move reinforcements from France to help their armies in the east. But many Russian units were poorly prepared. They did not have enough rifles
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WHY DID GERMANY LOSE WW1 Germany lost WW1 due to a variety of military‚ socio-economic & political‚ and strategic reasons. The war itself continued for 4 years‚ inflicting various casualties and economic hardships on Germany. The most important reason why Germany lost WW1 were its incompetence to carry out it’s various strategies – originating from the first strategic failure‚ the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The military incompetence of Germany on land and in sea was also an important
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