History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Great News, Ypres Salient, Hamilton Gault
3 Nov 2016
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Enthusiasm for war: the declaration of war, background, canada"s position, the first contingent. More urban, industrialized, more diverse due to immigration. Majority of canadians still live in rural areas (about 75%) despite urbanization. The population is still overwhelmingly of british or canadian birth despite immigration. You are expected to take care of things yourself- individual responsibility. The economy good for over 15 years, longest period of growth. Enormous amount of optimism, wilfred laurier believed the 20th century would belong to canada. August 4th, 1914, london, deal with the crisis that belgium had just been invaded. Ultimatum sent to germany that they must remove all troops from belgium. Factors that lead the world to war: or britain would declare war. Telegrams sent out across the governments of the british empire with this. Triple alliance: italy, germany, austria-hungary note: (cid:498)see preface defence scheme, war has broken out with germany(cid:499)
