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Canadian Patriotic Fund Poster
Canadian Patriotic Fund was established to provide support and comfort to wives and other dependents of those men who had volunteered their services to their Country. Volunteers in the communities gave their services for the distribution of the funds and for looking after the well being of affected families -
Second Battle Of Ypres
The Second Battle of Ypres was fought during the First World War from 22 April to 25 May 1915. It was the first major battle fought by Canadian troops in the Great War. The battle took place on the Ypres salient on the Western Front, in Belgium.. This was the first time that the poison gas was brought into war. More than 6,500 Canadians were killed, wounded or captured in the Second Battle of Ypres.
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First Gas Attack Of WW1
In the spring of 1915 Germany decided to test a new weapon, chlorine gas on the Ypres salient. On 22 April 1915, the Germans released more than 160 tonnes of the gas from thousands of canisters arranged along German lines. The heaviest part of the gas cloud hit the Algerians, the chlorine burning their throats and causing their lungs to fill with foam and mucus. Website Used: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-ypres -
The Battle Of Vimy Ridge
It all started in April 1917. Situated in northern France, the heavily-fortified seven-kilometre ridge held a commanding view over the Allied lines. The Canadians would be assaulting over an open graveyard since previous French attacks had failed with over 100,000 casualties. Canada won this one but it was a hard fought battle, even though we won there were 10 000 casualties.
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Union Government Campaign Poster
It was formed in 1917 by MPs who supported the Union government formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War. The government through the final years of the war, and was a proponent of conscription. It was opposed by the remaining Liberal MPs, who sat as the official opposition.
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The Battle Of Passchendaele
The Battle of Passchendaele, also called Third Battle of Ypres, (July 31–November 6, 1917), was a World War I battle that served as a symbol of the mud, madness, and senseless slaughter of the Western Front. The third and longest battle to take place at the Belgian city of Ypres, Passchendaele was ostensibly an Allied victory, but it was achieved at enormous cost for a piece of ground that would be vacated the following year. -
The Role Of Women In The War
As the war progressed more men were required to keep stability on the battlefield. This problem was largely tackled by mobilizing women to replace the men who had gone to fight. The role of women in securing victory cannot be underestimated. One of the reasons that Germany lost the war in 1918 was that they never succeeded in fully mobilizing their female population.
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The Last 100 Days
The Hundred Days (18 July-11 November 1918) was the final Allied offensive of the First World War on the Western Front. The stalemate on the Western Front had been broken by the great German offensives of the spring and summer of 1918, which had pushed the Allies back up to forty miles and created a series of huge salients in the Allied line.
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Borden, Sir Robert Laird
Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden speaks to troops while on a visit to Seaford Camp on 11 August 1918. Borden believed that the sacrifice of the Canadian forces in the field would require Britain to renegotiate with Canada after the war on full sovereignty.
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Treaty of Versailles
World War officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919. Negotiated among the Allied powers with little participation by Germany, its 15 parts and 440 articles reassigned German boundaries and assigned liability for reparations. Germany agreed to pay reparations under the Dawes Plan. Those plans were cancelled in 1932, and Hitler’s rise to power and subsequent actions rendered moot the remaining terms of the treaty.
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