WWI Origins and Canadian Involvement

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🇨🇦 WORLD WAR I STUDY GUIDE Key People & Leaders Robert Borden Prime Minister during WWI Pro-conscription → introduced the Military Service Act (1917) Anti-conscription (feared division, especially French vs English Canada) Arthur Currie First Canadian-born commander of the Canadian Corps Red Baron (Manfred von Richthofen) Germany’s most famous fighter pilot Causes of World War I (MANIA) Militarism Arms race Imperialism Competition for land, resources, power Assassination (Spark) Archduke Franz Ferdinand killed June 28, 1914 Assassin: Gavrilo Princip, linked to the Black Hand Why the Black Hand Acted Bosnia had many ethnic Serbs Canada & WWI Politics War Measures Act Government given emergency powers