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How majority soldiers were injured during WWI
The main weapon was the Muzzle Loading Musket.
It fired up four shots a minute, as the years went on machine gunners fired 600 rounds a minute.
This weapon caused wreaked havoc in the body, twisting tissue and splintering bone. -
House of commons
Laurier was a member of parliament in the House of Commons in 1874.
In 1877 he gave a speech that was appointed minister of inland revenue in Alexander Mackenzie’s Cabinet.
Since the speech was recognized he was a leader of the Quebec wing of the part. -
Prime minister of canada
Laurier was Canada's first prime minister, and continued from 1896-1911.
He was remembered for his contributions to Canadian economic, his era, and social development.
He generally supported the government but he had refused to subscribe conscription. -
Growth in the Country
Laurier had believed that the 20th century was "Canada's century" and that the only key to that was by developing the West of Canada.
The country was solidified by Laurier with the creations of provinces, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
The growth was increased by two million because the term encouraged immigration, Laurier constructed a second transcontinental railway, and it was caused by settlement of the West. -
The Schlieffen Plan
General Count Alfred von Schlieffen was the one who created the Schlieffen Plan, the Schlieffen Plan was an operational plan for a designated attack on France.
This plan was for when Russia's response to international tension started and it was to mobilise forces near the German border, which led to Britain declaring war.
The Shlieffen Plan had beeen revised when tension in Europe grew. -
Last unpopular bills Laurier passed
In 1910-1911 Sir Wilfrid passed two unpopular bills, one was the Naval Service Act, and the other was the reciprocity bill,
The Naval Service Act was to establish a Canadian Navy, and the reciprocity bill was to provide free trade, and to reduce duty on several natural resources to the United States.
The bills had sealed Sir Wilfrid's political defeat as a prime minister, Wilfrid still continued in the liberal party. -
Royal Flying Corps
This was used by the British Army, it directed artillery gunfire, it took photographs for analysis, and lastly it took part in dogfights with the German Air Service.
Brigadier-General Sir David Henderson was the first commander of the flying corpse.
This was used during WWI, 9,378 men were lost, and 7,245 were wounded.
Just under 7.000 bombs had been dropped against the opposing enemies. -
Battle of Tanga
The Battle of Tanga was known as " The Battle of The Bees" it was launched by the British and Indian forces.
The Battle established the burgeoning reputation,Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.
Paul successfully beat off the British-led attempt to capture German East Africa.
This was the first major activity in German East Africa, and it cost 847 casualties for the British and 148 casualties for the Germans. -
The Declaration of war by the British
Germany was declared war by Great Britain, and Great Britain was led by Prime Minister Herbert Asquith.
On August 3rd, Germany was given an ultimatum to get out of Belgium by midnight.
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First British Shot Fired
The first troop that fired a shot was Drummer E. Thomas.
He was sent out because they were informed by locals that 4 cavalrymen had been seen down the road, which later on the Germans had been caught down the main road.
The fight was mainly between British swords, and German lances. -
Battle of Hill 60
Anzac commander William Birdwood conducted the Battle of Hill 60, and it had been designed for General Henry de Beauvoir de Lisle's attack on Scimitar Hill.
The attack was to break Northwards out of the out of the restricted beachhead at Anzac Cove and to link up with the Allied force sited at Suvla Bay.
Anzac abandoned the attack on the 27th and 2,500 Allied casualties had been incurred. -
Twenty One Demands
Japan wanted to present China with a secret ultimatum, which was designed to give Japan a regional ascendancy over China.
The demands compromised 5 groupings, that required China to cease its leasing of territory to foreign powers, it also was to ascent Japanese control over Manchuria and Shandong among other demands.
Eventually the Chinese Government agreed to all of Japans demands. -
Second Battle of Ypres
The battle began on April 22, the French troops were gassed by Germans 4th army.
Some of the French were blinded or they had collapsed because of asphyxiation but they continued retreating.
There were around 6,000 French soldiers that had died from gas related causes.
On the morning of the 24th Germans released another gas attack in effort to take St. Julien. -
First Battle of Isonzo
Astro-hungarians were forced with 100,000 while Frugoni and the Duke of Aosta for the Italians had twice that size, plus around 200 guns.
Cadorna had chosen to launch massed infantry assaults .
Cadorna called the attack off two weeks after July 7th, while Italians made a minor gain. -
Battle of Arras
Two offensives were elected to occur after the bloodbaths at Verdun, and the Somme.
The offensive attack was that General Henry Horne's 1st Army was in the north, General Edmund Allenby's Third Army was put in the center, and General Hubert Gough's Fifth Army was in the south.
The main focus was to create tunnel systems so troops would be allowed to access German lines underground as well as the placement of mines. -
Opposing Conscription and forming a coalition
On the morning of May 25th Sir Wilfrid was asked to join a government, he said that he'd like it if a referendum on conscription, or a general election, was held first, they discussed it and Laurier requested a few days to think about it.
Wilfrid felt that the decision of the coalition was already made so he refused to join.
The Military Service Bill was passed by the Parliament on June 24th with 102 votes to 44. -
Second Battle of the Marne
The focus that Ludendorff had was to pull Allied troops South from his intended targets.
The plan had called for an attack South through the salient.
The aftermath on the attack cost around 139,000 Germans dead, and 29,367 captured.
All together the allies for French that were dead and wounded were 95,165, while 16,552 British and 12,000 Americans were dead and wounded also. -
Nurses in WWI
There were 21,480 nurses that enlisted and 10,000 nurses served overseas.
More than 200 nurses died while in service; while several had been wounded.
Nurses were needed the most between the year 1918-1919 because that was when the flu epidemic became known all over the world.
675,000 Americans died, while more than 20 million people died around the world.
Most nurses who died overseas died because of the epidemic. -
Last day of WWI
November 11th, 1918 is the last day of WWI, and it's known as Armistice day.
Although November 11th was the last day at war, the Western Front continued on fighting.
Since the war finally ended, Big Ben was rung for the first time since start of war in August 1914, and Gas lamps in Paris were lit for the first time in 4 years. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Treaty was a peace settlement between Germany and the Allied Powers, it was the end of WWI, which was signed on June 28th, 1919.
The Paris Peace Conference finalized Versailles, and it was opened on January 18, 1919, which was a little bit over two months after the Western Front ended.
Germany was handed over the Varsailles Treaty on May 7, 1919.
