“Assess the role of Canada in the First World War.” Looking back at the First World War‚ people often remember the assassination of the archduke Franz- Ferdinand‚ the two- front war and the Schlieffen plan‚ and the domination of trench warfare. However‚ Canada was an essential factor in the war. The war showed that not only could Canada provide sufficient military support‚ but it also showed that Canada could become an effective military power. Based on the premise of the British North American
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China. In a military sense‚ for instance‚ Germany was crippled by the Treaty of Versailles‚ with their army reduced to a humiliating 100‚000 soldiers with no conscription permitted. Part of Hitler’s appeal was his aims to regain Germany’s former military status as a great power‚ by defying the terms of the Treaty and reintroducing conscription in 1936. Economically‚ much of China was pushed back to a juvenile system of bartering after the financial catastrophe that was the GMD government. For instance
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world war. The Arms Race was another factor of the war. Certain European countries competed against each other to see who would have the most powerful army. A large amount of money was spent and pretty much every country in the Arms Race adopted conscription. Global conflicts on such a large scale are rarely ever because of 1 simple cause. Nation leaders acted unreasonably and the war could very easily have been prevented‚ and many lives saved. All the countries that were involved in World War
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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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class-consciousness. They are asked to sacrifice more than the plantation class southerners (“Rich man’s war‚ poor man’s fight”). * Government policies favoring elite: * Planters can be excused from conscription if they own more than 20 slaves (twenty-slave law) * A draftee can be excused if he can hire a substitute * Wealthy are sacrificing luxuries while the poor are giving up necessities * Planters
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would take heavy blows from the decisions of the Confederacy. First of all they knew that if all their plantation owners fought in the war‚ their crops would possibly die out or not produce as much. To combat this problem they decided in the Conscription law that if someone had twenty or more slaves‚ they didn ’t have to fight in the war. This caused the price of slaves to increase and caused crops from small slave holding plantations and yeoman farmers to do terrible. Since most Southerners
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consequences. One of the major groups who were affected by World War 1 were the women of Britain‚ playing a significant role to provide for their family and for the men who fought in the war. With the early rush of volunteers in 1914 and the conscription in 1916 led to a shortage of manpower on Britain’s home front‚ this then led to women taking up jobs normally done by the men such as farming or bank clerks. This was the start of a major social change as prior to the war a women’s main job was
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occurring. During the time of the war‚ moratoriums and other organisations led by men and women were to trigger the Australian government that they were highly against the conscription of men from the age of 20 years old and over. University students mainly had taken part of these actions due to the unwanted youth conscription of University students who just want to focus on their education rather than the fighting in the war against the Viet Cong. Lewis begins to change by becoming more interested
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take place. Generals from various nations across the globe were sending their troops to fight for a war that seemed endless‚ and at the same time the morale of soldiers was going down. The loss of so many soldiers has pushed militaries to start conscription and this is where the conscientious objectors started raising their voice. The resource utilized in this paper is the documentary Field Punishment no. 1.; a documentary that truly captures
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Governments should reflect the will of their people. They‚ the government‚ are accountable for their people‚ and vise versa. Society should be structured how the people who live in those said societies wish to live in them. For example‚ we can see this being true all over the world with the feminist movement. Throughout history‚ we can see evidence of people demanding women’s rights and equality‚ but the major turning point of course‚ is when western governments acknowledged the want the people‚
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