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A group of 7 men that are state-sponsored terrorists from Bosnia commit an act of murder which ends up sparking the start of a 4-year-long war. In fact, one of the deadliest wars too. The act of murder was done on Franz Ferdinand who was an archduke of Austria-Este. Franz and his wife Sophie were both shot and killed, Sophie dying first, then Franz dying shortly after her.
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The Battle of Ypres was a battle where the German released a big cloud of chlorine gas into the French trenches. A lot of disruption occurred as many soldiers started panicking as they were breathing in the fatal gas, luckily the Canadian troops survived. The Canadian Soldiers were outgunning and outflanking the German Soldiers but on April 24th, they decided to set out another cloud of chlorine gas this time going right into the Canadian troops, causing around 6,000 deaths of Canadian soldiers.
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During World War I, many nurses were needed to help the soldiers that were wounded and many women offered to join the workforce as a nurse to help out the soldiers. The main role for women in WWI was nursing but other roles were also there such as ambulance drivers. Women did a lot for WWI, an example is, Mae Belle Sampson which helped to treat 15,000 with only 2,000 beds in the hospital she worked at.
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Although the English did take over the Aboriginals land, thousands of Aboriginal people voluntarily signed up to go to war with the other Canadian troops. ⅓ of First Nations between the ages of 18 to 45 ended up fighting in war. They served in almost everything and were there for all of the major battles Canada was involved in. Many Aboriginal soldiers were awarded with medals that determine their bravery and heroism.
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This was the first time that all four of the Canadian divisions attacked together as the Canadian corps. The Germans had really bad defense plans and therefore Canada's troops outnumbered theirs and ended up capturing Vimy Ridge. Jeremiah Jones was a black soldier that fought in the Vimy Ridge and he rescued his unit from an enemy machine gun nest and this is now known as “Canada's great success”. Racism at the time was really severe and Jones proved his worth in a white mans army.
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Creating a lot of bitterness between the English and the French was this Act that was an arguable law which allowed conscription of men that were Canadian to serve for the final years of World War I. About 24,000 men actually fought on the battleground whereas the 400,000 other men that volunteered didn’t get to fight in war. Conscription was a big part of Canada’s division between the English Canadians and French Canadians due to many different reasons.
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Government Borden extended who could vote to women that were relatives of soldiers and nurses that were constantly serving overseas. This included any relation with them for example a mother, a daughter, an aunt and even a wife. But, that was just the start and only women that were “white” were allowed to vote. Asian, Black, Brown or any other ethnicity that wasn’t white couldn't necessarily vote.
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Throughout time, the allies of Canada counter attacked the German soldiers keeping them away. The German lost tens of thousands of soldiers only to end up not winning the war. After the battle of Amiens, the German Army was unable to recover and too many troops were lost to even try and so many of the German troops began to surrender instead of fight to their death. Many soldiers lost their lives from Canada to end this war and push to end the war and that’s what the 100 days was.
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The Treaty of Versailles was a treaty that was signed which ended the war between Germany and their allied powers. It took them half a year to end the war completely and negotiations started in Paris. Germany couldn’t participate in negotiations because they were the ones that had lost the war. The Treaty of Versailles made sure Germany took full blame for the causes of the war. In today’s money, Germany was asked to pay $393 billion dollars in addition to signing the Treaty of Versailles.
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The biggest strike in Canadian history lays the Winnipeg General Strike that happened in 1919 because unemployment was very high at the time and people that had jobs worked hours everyday and couldn’t get a good enough pay to make up for the work they did. 30,000 women and men left their jobs and this shut down all the privately owned areas in the city. These people rioted for many days and some of the leaders of the General Strike Committee had been arrested due to the starting of this.
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In January of 1922, Insulin was first used to treat diabetes. This was a really important discovery for all of the people that had diabetes in the old days because of how much they suffered through not being able to eat molasses or anything like that without feeling really sick.
