HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Civilization Ii, Fifth Column, White Feathers
24 Jan 2017
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Dr. emily howard stowe and toronto women"s literary club. Assassination of austrian archduke franz ferdinand and sophie, duchess of. Austria-hungary declares war on serbia and sets off domino effect of alliances in europe. Germany has plan to invade frances through belgium (belgium is a weaker country) Belgium have an agreement t be protected by the british empire. Britain and germany were largest rivals for territory of africa. Lead up to 1914 fighting smaller wars. Canada didn"t declare war canada told (cid:498)you"re apart of british empire, send us your troops(cid:499) (cid:498)necessary for the security, defence, peace, order, and welfare of canada(cid:499) 1914 prime minister borden: pass legislations act. Canada has a small army in 1914. German forces poured clouds of chlorine gas. Canadians first to be exposed to this type of war fair. Estimated to kill up to 6,000 people, injuring even more. Battle began to erode canadians confidence that war was going to be short.
