diff --git a/Grade 10/History/CHC2DZ/Unit 1: World War I.md b/Grade 10/History/CHC2DZ/Unit 1: World War I.md index 15e8132..48ee14f 100644 --- a/Grade 10/History/CHC2DZ/Unit 1: World War I.md +++ b/Grade 10/History/CHC2DZ/Unit 1: World War I.md @@ -44,4 +44,86 @@ - Russia would take longer than six weeks to mobilise forces - France would die in six weeks - Belgium would not resist - - Great Britain would not come to Belgium's aid and join the war \ No newline at end of file + - Great Britain would not come to Belgium's aid and join the war + +## Canadian Expeditionary Force + + - Not all recruits welcomed + - In 1914, the following were required: Good eyesight, arched feet, healthy teeth + - Most visible minorities were rejected because recruiters were racist + - First Nations were valued later in the war for sniper and recon abilities + - Samuel Hughes + - Minister of Militia and Defense + - Appointed by PM Robert Borden to recruit and train Canadian Expeditionary Force + - Army grew from 3 000 to 30 000 within two months + - Established Valcartier Camp + - Helped industrialise Ontario + - Bought expensive **shovel-shields** (shovels with holes) + - Issued flawed and useless garbage **Ross Rifles** + - Lots of corruption accusations with substandard munitions production + - Religious bigotry (intolerance) of French Canadians + - Resigned in 1916 + - Valcartier Camp + - Largest military camp on Canadian soil + - Established in Quebec City by Hughes + - British perspective + - Canadians were wild, mutinous, and unruly + - Crashed officers' private bars + - Ignored British class structure rules + - 1 249 cases of STIs out of force of 30 000 + - Less volunteers as war continues because idealist war fantasies are fading + - Government relaxes restrictions (i.e., lowered medical standards/requirements) + - First Nations + - Wanted to fight for British Crown + - Wanted to gain rights + - 1/3 of all First Nations enlisted + - Typically **sniper** or **recon** as they had **traditional hunting** skills + - Cultural differences between Canadians and First Nations were challenges (e.g., challenging the leader) + +## Trench warfare + + - British + French vs Germans + - `Western Front`: 700 km of trenches from Belgium to Switzerland + - War of attrition + - It sucked + - Government spams propaganda + - Modern society thinks that this was not very intelligent + - Hygiene is all gone + - Mud, lice, and rats everywhere + - `Duck boards`: Wooden boards used to cross wet, marshy land + - Used to prevent soldiers' feet from rotting + + 1. Everyone go just go please don't die but charge them + 2. If you fail and we run out of people to throw run away + 3. Everyone who charges dies + +## Technologies + + - Machine guns + - Better used defensively than offensively due to bulk + - Artillery + - Field guns/cannons + - `Big Bertha`: Powerful German artillery cannon + - Airplanes + - First used for recon + - Pilots smuggled guns onboard + - Germans developed integrated gun that synched with propeller to shoot through it + - `Dogfight`: Aerial combat + - Tanks + - Invented in 1916 to combat machine gun + - Too slow and would get stuck + - U-Boat + - Submarines used to disrupt supply lines + - Used to "starve another country into submission" + +### Chemical warfare + + - Chlorine gas + - Reacts with lining of respiratory system + - Causes lungs to fill with bodily fluids + - Drown + - Mustard gas + - Causes internal + external bleeding + - Odourless + - Active for weeks + - Causes painful blistering \ No newline at end of file