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1. www.britannica.com › place › CanadaCanada - WWI, Military, Recruitment | Britannica

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   2 days ago · An initial contingent of 33,000 troops sailed for England in October 1914 to lay the foundation for the creation of the 1st Canadian Division. In April 1915 the Canadians saw their first major action in the Second Battle of Ypres (Belgium), where German forces first used poison gas as a weapon.

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   1 day ago · The identification of the causes of World War I remains a debated issue. World War I began in the Balkans on July 28, 1914, and hostilities ended on November 11, 1918, leaving 17 million dead and 25 million wounded.

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   4 days ago · Allies of World War I. The Allies, or the Entente, were an international military coalition of countries led by France, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy, and Japan against the Central Powers of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria in World War I (1914–1918). By the end of the first decade of the 20th ...

4. www.britannica.com › event › World-War-IWorld War I - Nations, Resources, 1914 | Britannica

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   2 days ago · World War I - Nations, Resources, 1914: The strengths and weaknesses of the military and other resources of the Allied powers and the Central Powers at the start of World War I in 1914 are compared.

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   2 days ago · World War I, international conflict that in 1914–18 embroiled most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the U.S., the Middle East, and other regions. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Eastern_Front_(World_War_I)Eastern Front (World War I) - Wikipedia

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   1 day ago · The Eastern Front or Eastern Theater of World War I (German: Ostfront; Romanian: Frontul de răsărit; Russian: Восточный фронт, romanized: Vostochny front) was a theater of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between Russia and Romania on one side and Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman ...

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   Why did Canadians take part in WW1?

   • As the war dragged on, more and more English Canadians began to view it as a Canadian national war effort, not simply as another British war in which Canadians were taking part. By 1917 the government was trying to regulate many facets of Canadian economic life.

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   Why was the Canadian war so important?

   • No less important were the millions of rounds of ammunition turned out by Canadian factories. In fact, the war was a significant step forward for Canadian industry, which had to learn complicated mass production techniques and apply them to the manufacture of everything from wooden shell crates to training aircraft.

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   When did the Canadian Army join the British Army?

   • By the spring of 1917, four Canadian divisions, constituting the Canadian Corps, were in the field, with a fifth division in Britain. The entire corps fought together for the first time in April 1917, when it distinguished itself by capturing Vimy Ridge in northern France.

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   What did British nurses do in WW1?

   • British nursing efforts were not limited to the Western Front. Nicknamed the "Gray partridges" in reference to their dark gray overcoats, Scottish volunteer nurses arrived in Romania in 1916 under the leadership of Elsie Inglis. In addition to nursing injured personnel, Scottish nurses manned transport vehicles and acted as regimental cooks.

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8. www.worldatlas.com › world-wars › the-impact-ofThe Impact of World War One on the Israel-Palestine Conflict

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   Jun 1, 2024 · Examine how World War One shaped the Israel-Palestine conflict with British decisions in 1914-1918 sowing seeds of persistent conflict.