Taqiyah. Johnson Mr. Zinman CHC2D March 6th/2016 WW1 and the Shaping of Canada’s Identity The Battle of Vimy Ridge‚ the expansion of women’s rights and freedom‚ and conscription are three times in history that shaped Canada’s identity as an independent nation during WW1. Canada was automatically sent to go to war on August 4‚ 1914‚ when Britain declared war. However‚ Canada was not prepared for war. During the war‚ Canada’s priorities shifted from defending their mother country Britain
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Nationalism can be defined as the feeling that one’s nation (one’s people) is superior to other nations. This helped lead to WWI in two ways. First‚ nationalism can breed arrogance because it makes people feel superior. It can lead them to want to prove their superiority through fighting. It can also lead them to think that they will surely win any war because of their superiority. Second‚ nationalism helped lead to WWI because it caused conflict. Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated because
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World War One (WW1) beginning on the 28th July 1914 and ending on 11 November 1918 impacted the everyday lives and attitudes of Australians in many ways. The soldiers who fought in WW1 were affected physically (injuries) and physiologically‚ in the trenches and on the battlefields. This caused many of the soldiers to suffer PTSD and shell shock. Consequently WW1 also affected the lives of Families‚ specifically women and children who where left to work at home and do jobs men would usually do.
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Hitler expands:Rhineland‚ Austria‚ Sudetenland‚ In 1935 Hitler began to re arm Germany by rebuilding its military. All necessary war material were being manufactured in factories across Germany. As a result of world war one the Rhineland was to be a demilitarized zone‚ but in 1936 Hitler Ignored that rule and went ahead and sent troop into the Rhineland to give his Blitzkriek strategy a head start. Hitler incorporated the Sudetenland and austria in his reign of terror with little effort. There was
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Should the U.S have entered into WW1? President Woodrow Wilson felt he had good reasons for the U.S to go to war‚ but I feel that they were the wrong reasons and that the U.S really had no just cause to get involved in a war that was not theirs. My first reason why America should not have gone to war is‚ this was not our war. This war was between Europe and it should have stayed within Europe. The Royal Navy was on the brink of ending the war before we even decided to go. If we stayed
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first independent declaration of war. Over 1 million citizens served in the military and by the end of the war Canada had the fourth-largest air force and third-largest navy fleet in the world. Around 41% of Canadian males 18–45 served in the military. WW2 would not have been won if it weren’t for the huge contributions Canada made to help the allies. Canada made one of the largest commitments to the effort‚ and was very important for its role in liberating Europe. We supplied the British people when
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Why did Germany loose the WW1? Why did Germany loose The First World War? On 28 June 1914 a bullet change the tension in Europe for years and a World war broke out. Germany in the losing side together with especially Austria-Hungary but also Ottoman empire and Bulgaria against in the start the Triple Entente which included Russia‚ Britain and France who got support by other countries after a while but why did Germany loose the war? Well it’s hard to practically point one thing out and say this
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On August 1st 1914‚ Germany declared war on Russia‚ and on the 3rd‚ declared war on France. Starting at the top of the previous page the first piece of artwork I chose to review is Max Beckmann’s piece Der Kriegsausbruch (Declaration of War)‚ created in 1914 as the declarations of war had just been announced. This is a drawing depicting the reaction of passers-by in Berlin to the news of war being declared. I chose this piece specifically because of the "sketchy" style of drawing. I find that
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known as World War 1. WW1 had been going on since June 28‚1914 to November 11‚1918. The two sides of the war were fought by the Triple Entente and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente had consisted of Great Britain‚ France‚ and Russia. The Triple Alliance had consisted of Austria-Hungary‚ Germany‚ and Italy. WW1’s end was when the United States had joined the Triple Entente and sent thousands of fresh soldiers to Europe and destroyed Germany’s soldiers. There were many ways WW1 had started. A couple
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History Assessment 04) The treaty of Versailles was signed in June in 1919 at the end of the first world war when Germany had lost. The treaty included rules that Germany had to abide by‚ these rules were created in order to prevent Germany invading any other country and starting another war. The demilitarization of the Rhineland was one of the conditions that Germany had to agree to ‚ this meant that France and Belgium felt more secure and out of Germany’s reach. Another term of the treaty of
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