... been conquered by Germany, and they were in the suburbs of Moscow ready to attack. Stalin needed help, thus he asked the Allies to help the USSR by opening up a Western front in Europe.(Monroe) The Canadians were the first to respond as they eagerly wanted to prevent Hitler from throwing all the might of his armies against the Soviets. In performing ... this raid, Canadian troops aided Stalin and his Soviet forces by essentially distracting the Germans from the Russian front. Canada was also the country who put the most resources into this raid. Approximately five-thousand troops were i...

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... , which took place on April 9, 1917. In this book the author, Pierre Berton, shows how civilians from Canada, a country without a military tradition, seized the best-defended German stronghold on the Western Front. The main thesis of the book, being suggested by Burton, is how Vimy became a turning point in Canada's relations with the world and in the image Canadians have of themselves ... Vimy, the Canadians lived down their reputation as a "rag-tag" army and became considered as one of the best. Vimy convinced Canadians that they were the finest troops on the Western Front and gave all...

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... size was an outstanding effort. This number helped greatly to win the Italian Campaign. For Canada's size it contributed greatly by forcing Hitler to have another front. They also revolutionized hand to hand fighting and by doing all of this, it lead to the success of the campaign. Canada made a great ... the pressure off the British and American Allies. In Southern Italy, the Allied troops forced the Germans north and caused them to set up another front that became known as the "Winter Line". The Allies needed to push the Germans as far out of Italy as they could. But in order ... ont...

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... to achieve the ever-elusive breakthrough in the German lines. It was at Vimy Ridge that the German's heavily fortified Hindenburg Line made a junction with many other trenches along the front. Behind the ridge there also lay many of German factories, which were vital for the construction of munitions and other war materials. In the battle, it was the Canadians" task ... . Engineers built elaborate tunnels deep under enemy lines, a light railroad was constructed and defended, and heavy artillery was brought aid in the battle. The troops trained on sites behind the front on terrain very si...

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... "underground" or a "railroad," but a loosely constructed network of escape routes that originated in the South, wove through the North, and eventually ended in Canada. Escape routes also extended into western territories, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Typically, enslaved African Americans who fled from plantations and cities northern to Virginia were more likely to take refuge in northern states, Canada, and ... western territories. Those who lived in the Deep South often ensured their freedom by escaping into Mexico and the Caribbean. Among other locations to which they fled were maroon s...

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... helped Canada become its own country. Vimy Ridge showed that careful planning, and lots of training could turn any citizen into a soldier (Encyclopedia). With no other allied operation on the western front, this organized and well planned this attack seemed like it wouldn't happen. Vimy Ridge was so fortified that all previous attempts had failed. When General Arthur Currie took on the ... ...

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... 1968. After two years of characteristically liberal rule, the high point of Trudeau's popularity came in 1970, during the so-called October crisis. Members of an extreme separatist group, the Front de Libération de Quebec, kidnapped James Cross, a British diplomat, and Pierre Laporte, Quebec's labor minister, demanding the release of several of the organization's members who had been imprisoned ... of controversy at times, as did his radical tactics in dealing with the energy crisis of the early 1980s. Many of Canada's business leaders (especially those in the oil-rich Western province...

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