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1917

Canadian army innovations in trench warfare (careful planning, creeping artillery barrages followed closely by troop assaults, and machines guns used in indirect fire) helped to secure victories at Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele.

"Flash Spotting" and "Sound Ranging": Jan-Mar 1917

American Declaration of War: 6 Apr 1917

Billy Bishop Wins Military Cross: 8 Apr 1917

Vimy Ridge: 9 Apr 1917

Conscription Crisis: 1917

Russian Revolution: 25 Oct 1917

Halifax Explosion: 6 Dec 1917

Armistice of Brest-Litovsk: 10 Dec 1917

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