Great War's Impact on the Home Front

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2. Compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service. Draft.
4. The Canadian troops trained on this English plain during winter 1914-1915.
5. In response to the conscription, this form of civil revolt occurred in Montreal in spring and summer 1917.
6. This Treaty ended the war against Germany in 1918.
7. This neutral country was invaded by Germany on August 4, 1914. This invasion is the main reason why Great Britain entered the Great War after an unanswered ultimatum.
9. British Lieutenant-General who led the the first Canadian contingent in Europe during the First World War.
11. Federal Liberal Party leader in 1917. He was against the conscription.

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1. This Statute gave Canada total independance in 1931.
3. Canadian Lieutenant-General who led the Canadian troops in Europe from June 1917 until the end of the First World War.
4. In 1914, this German plan foresaw a rapid attack on France, to crush its army and to attack Russia on the oriental front soon after.
6. A power of one department or branch of a government to forbid or prohibit finally or provisionally the carrying out of projects attempted by another department. A power vested in a chief executive to prevent permanent or temporarily the enactment of measures passed by a legislature.
8. Canadian nationalist leader during World War I.
10. Canadian Prime minister in 1917.

 

 

 

 

 

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