The Roaring 20's!

 A Painful Peach  1:07:42 (for 8 minutes)
The Winnipeg General Strike 1:17:34 (for 9 minutes)
At the Mercy of Our Neighbours 1:37 (for 9 minutes)

IMPROMPTU #6

Would you have made a good officer?

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/westernfront/Western%20Front%20Sim.htm

Emerging Technology of WWI

Technology of Warfare . . . World War One Style

The Ross Rifle??? . . . really??

http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPISCONTENTSE1EP12CH2PA5LE.html

Emerging technology played a major role in the evolution of warfare during World War One.   One of the Canadian developed technologies used during combat was the "Ross Rifle".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_rifle

 Below is a link to an article that points out many of the "technical difficulties" faced by soldiers using the Ross Rifle during trench warfare (heavy at 9 pounds, mis-firing, jamming). . . and their solution to take British designed and made Lee Enfields off dead soldiers in  no man's land.

http://suite101.com/article/the-scandal-of-the-ross-rifle-a302231


Trench Warfare

German U Boats

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-boat

British Dreadnoughts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought

The Tank . . . a solution to the stalemate created by trench warfare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_World_War_I

Chemical Warfare

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_weapons_in_World_War_I

Canada in the First World War The Great War Some Links

http://www.warmuseum.ca/firstworldwar/

http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/cef.htm

http://www.canadahistoryproject.ca/index.html