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Triple Alliance, secret agreement between Germany Austria Hungary Italy Formed in May 1882 and renewed periodically until World War I. Germany and Austria-Hungary had been closely allied since 1879. Italy sought their support against France shortly after losing North African ambitions to the French.
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In Westminster systems of government, a khaki election is any national election which is heavily influenced by war time or post war sentiment. In the British general election of 1900, the Conservative Party government of Lord Salisbury was returned to office, defeating a disunited Liberal Party The reason for this name is that the election was held in the midst of the Second Boer War and khaki was the color of the relatively new military uniform of the British Army.
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Triple Entente, association between Great Britain, France ,and Russia, the nucleus of the Allied Powers in World War I. It developed from the Franco-Russian alliance that gradually developed and was formalized in 1894, the Anglo-French Entente Cordiale of 1904, and an Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907, which brought the Triple Entente into existence.
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The alliances made at the beginning of World War 1 are the main reason world war 1 went from being a war between accuser and accused, Austria Hungary and Serbia to the first world war. B.
The triple alliance were Germany Austria Hungary and Italy and the triple entente.
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The machine gun, which so came to dominate and even to personify the battlefields of World War One, was a fairly primitive device when general war began in August 1914. Machine guns of all armies were largely of the heavy variety and decidedly ill-suited to portability for use by rapidly advancing infantry troops.
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. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand had an immediate impact on the world because his assassination was the event that sparked World War I. After the lethal incident in Austria-Hungary, the Austro-Hungarian government gave Serbia an ultimatum. Austria "said they would invade if the Serbs did not give Austria-Hungary complete control over their country.
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1st Canadian division arrived on ww1 January 14, 1915, then they proceeded to Belgium.
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The battle of Ypres started on April 22 1915. The first battle of Ypres was on October 19,1914, on the Belgium border of France. Ypres was one of the wars that Canada used a gas mask but also 2000 people died in that battle. The people fighting in the war of Ypres were France, Britain, Canada and Germany. The battle ended on may 25 1915 in a town called Leta Ferens. It was significant because they fought on Flanders Field.
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The battle of Somme began on July 1st 1916. The battle was on the Somme river of France. 57,000 soldiers died battling in the battle of Somme. In the battle of Somme France Canada was fighting On November 18, 1916, British Commander in Chief Sir Douglas called a halt to his army’s offensive near the Somme River in northwestern France, ending the epic Battle of Somme after more than four months of bloody conflict that's how it ended. They say that the battle of Somme is the bloodiest battle.
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Originally presented as a temporary wartime measure, the Income War Tax Act of 1917 was viewed as a controversial measure at the time. This digest, offered by R. Easton Burns, a certified accountant, goes through the act clause-by-clause to discuss its full impact on Canadians.
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The conscription crisis of 1917 was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I. It was mainly caused by disagreement on whether men should be conscripted to fight in the war, but also brought out many issues regarding relations between French Canadians and English Canadians. Almost all French Canadians opposed conscription; they felt they felt that they had no particular loyalty to either Britain or France they felt their only loyalty was to Canada.
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The effects of World War I gave rise to the Russian Revolution. In February and March 1917, a popular revolution forced the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of a provisional government. This government, which kept Russia in the war, was itself overthrown by radical socialists just eight months later. World War I had incited the Russian Revolution, killed off one of Europe’s oldest monarchies and delivered a new political phenomenon: socialist dictatorship.
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The Battle of Vimy Ridge started on April 9th 1917. The battle took place in vimy France.. The british stack was the circumstance from the battle of vimy ridge. The countries fighting in the battle of vimy ridge was Canada and Germany. The battle of vimy ridge ended because Canada took 145 from Germany. The Battle of Vimy ridge was fought from the 9th to the 12th and its Canada's most celebrated victory.
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The Battle of Passchendaele started on July 31 1917. The Battle of Passchendaele was on the western front of Belgium The Battle of Passchendaele, also known as the Third Battle of Ypres 500,000 people were killed or wounded. The countries fighting in the battle of Passchendaele were Germany and Canada. British victory at Passchendaele After more than three months of bloody combat, the Third Battle of Ypres effectively came to an end on November 6, 1917, with a hard-won victory by Canada.
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On November 11th, France commemorates Armistice Day with a national holiday. Known in French as 'Jour d 'armistice', Armistice Day is reserved as a day to commemorate the end of the first world war and honour the veterans of both world wars.
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Women got the federal vote in three stages: the Military Voters Act of 1917 allowed nurses and women in the armed services to vote; the Wartime Election Act extended the vote to women who had husbands, sons or fathers serving overseas; and all women over 21 were allowed to vote as of January 1, 1919.
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They used more powerful guns like the M1 Carbine, M1 Garand, Springfield M1903, Mauser M1908 those are some of the guns there are still more guns but the list is too long to put all the guns into this and better tanks and better planes and the first introduction too cruise missile and the ballistic missile. for planes they used
Fowke-Wulf Ta 152, the Fokker d.xxi, the Grumman F4F/FM and also the Grumman F6F and more planes. and they used Sherman tanks.
