HIS 1101 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 - Two Wars and a Depression, 1914-1945.docx
27 Mar 2015
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British war effort: canadian entered the war with no idea of its ultimate length, intensity, or futile, canadians who fought in europe were almost exclusively volunteers, the great war produced a new form of nervous illness, which came to be known savagery as shell shock", was really a combination of various assaults on the human nervous system and moved down by german machine guns; 310 died attacks, using for protection nothing but handkerchiefs soaked in urine, battle of ypres > a canadian regiment withstood one of the first poison gas, second battle of ypres > 684 newfoundlanders were trapped by barbed wires, wartime elections act of 1917 > granted federal electoral franchise to women, the war time measures act > was passed at the wars beginning which was a blank cheque allowing the government to censor writing and speech, as well to arrest, detain, and even deport those regarded as obstructing the war effort with close relatives in the war.
