hi i'm mindy nydell and this is another
exciting episode of out of the trenches
our great war special episode where i
sit here in the chair of wisdom and i
answer your questions about the great
war
uh mr
flaming cat which i assume is supposed
to be the flaming cat writes was there
ever a situation when one of the nordic
countries
almost was pulled into the war well the
three scandinavian kings met in malmo in
the south of sweden in december 1914 to
formally declare neutrality now the
swedish king gustav v was pro-german
much of his family was german and many
swedish conservatives advocated joining
the central powers early in the war and
actually um the king gave a speech in
early 1915 which was written by the
explorer sven hedin who was a really
famous explorer that favored entering
the war on germany's side and government
policy at the time had a pretty strong
pro-german bias but the swedish public
had no desire to enter the war and by
1916 they had a new cabinet who
abandoned the pro-german leanings anyhow
now norway and denmark didn't seriously
consider joining the war either denmark
specifically since it was connected by
land knew that there was no way they
could withstand a german land invasion
so it made really good sense to be
neutral but germany didn't always
respect that neutrality though like when
the war broke out germany forced denmark
to lay mines in the great belt which is
those straits that sort of divide
denmark into and the british did not
react militarily to this even though it
was an act of war since the british
understood the danish position that kind
of had to do it and the mines didn't
have much effect anyhow so
the short answer to your question is
no
17 arcrage arcrage arcrage asks will you
be covering the huge problems caused by
the psychological aspects of the war
like shellshop
shall shock
we will yes but not until later in the
war and it
well it may sound gruesome but we're
waiting until there are millions more
victims before we cover it uh asada
shinon writes hey indy hey
what was canada's role in world war one
we learned about it in school but not
much
okay um
well canada prior to world war one
didn't really have much of an army at
all actually in 1914 they had just over
like 3 000 soldiers and
a few old artillery pieces and the
nation at that time was totally
unprepared for modern war but the
germans didn't really expect any of the
british dominions to be of much use in
the war though since they figured the
war would be over before they'd be in a
position to help fight they were wrong
the first canadian troops that were sent
over
were sent over in october 1914 and the
canadian expeditionary force initially
totaled around 30 000 men the canadian
corps was organized as part of the
british army and eventually totaled four
front-line divisions now the men who
made up this force were predominantly
sums of british-born immigrants
recruiting among french-speaking
canadians was really difficult because
many of them thought of the war as an
english war although there was one
french-speaking canadian battalion the
22nd so that's a beginning for you so
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