Great job with jeopardy today; Mr. Marshall's game was very intense!
Here are the last of the WWI vocab words:
Battle of the Somme: allied commanders tried to end trench warfare, but the attack was not successful (bombardment by Haig)
Shell Shock: psychological condition that results from exposure to warfare
Vimy Ridge: strategically important because it was a natural fortress that was hard to attack but easy to defend
Passchendale: Canadian troops asked to attack Germans even though they could not move through the mud
Gallipoli Campaign: April 1915- December1915: Turks enter war to keep the Russians out of the Gallilpoli peninsula
Dogfight: duals between pilots
Ace: pilots ability to maneuver in the air, and shoot down the most enemy planes
Billy Bishop: Canadian Ace--> rewarded the Victoria Cross
Victoria Cross: British military honour for courage and bravery
Luistania: British passenger ship that sunk in 1914 due to the Germans
U-boats: submarine
Convoy system:
Victory Bonds: Canadians bought bonds, lending money to the government for the war effort; after the war, they could be redeemed with interest
Income Tax: tax on your average income to support the war
Conscription: compulsory military service (forced to fight)
Military Service Bill: conscription compulsory for all able-bodied men age 20-35
Conscientious Objectors/pacifists: fighting against religious beliefs
Union Government: coalition government (two governments bonded together)
Suffragettes: women who organized themselves to gain the right to vote
Wartime Elections Act: granted vote to soldiers wives and mothers and sisters, in 1914 (Borden who put into action)
Propaganda: any strategy used to persuade people to believe in a certain idea
The armistice: truce
President Woodrow Wilson: US president--> released document 14 Points--> did not want US to enter the war, only after Germans refused their ultimatum
Fourteen Points: presented to convince the American people that the sacrifices made during the war were justified
Internationalism: idea about how nations should work together
Treaty of Versailles: international agreement which said what was going to happen to defeated countries of WWI
Paris Peace Conference: allied powers met to decide upon Treaty of Versailles
Realism vs. Idealism: realists believe that Germany should be dealt with harshly, and idealists believed that punishing Germany would only cause bitterness and revenge
Reparations: country pays for damage caused by war
Self-determination: ethnic groups vote on issue to decide who they would prefer to be governed by
War Guilt Cause: states Germany alone must accept responsibility for causing the war`
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