Lesson 3

  • Britain declared war on Germany.

    Canada and the rest of the British Empire were at war
  • Period: to

    First World War

    Was heralded as the war to end all wars
  • McCrae composed "In Flanders Fields"

    McCrae composed "In Flanders Fields"

    “In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks still bravely singing fly
    Scarce heard amid the guns below. "
  • 'Lusitania' sank off the coast of Ireland when it was torpedoed by a German U-Boat

  • The Military Service Act "legally sanctioned conscription"

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