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Canadian History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Black Hand | Group that assassinated Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand |
| Prime Minister during WWI | Robert Borden |
| Conscription | Mandatory enlistment |
| Income tax | Temporary measure during WWI on the Homefront |
| Supporters of Conscription | Families of soldiers |
| Opponents of Conscription | Pacifists, French Canadians, and Farmers |
| Rationing | Saving food to send overseas for soldiers |
| Ypres | Battle involving first use of chlorine gas |
| Somme | Battle involving the first use of the tank by Britain |
| Passchedaele | Muddy nightmare |
| Vimy Ridge | creeping barrrage |
| U-boats (subs) | Germany |
| Triple Entente | France, England, Russia (Canada) |
| Triple Alliance | Germany, Italy, Hungary |
| Lusitania | U.S. entry into the war |
| Treaty of Versailles | Canada got its first seats at an international war conference, independent from Britain |
| War Guilt Clause | Germany had to claim all responsibility for WWI |
| Flappers | Women who rebelled by cutting their hair, drinking, dancing, and staying out late. |
| Famous Five | Fought to have women declared as "persons" under the law |
| Model T Ford | Invention of the 1920s |
| Residential Schools | Native Canadian children assimilated into "Canadian culture" through removal from their homes |
| Prohibition | Law preventing the production and sale of alcohol |
| Too much buying on credit | Cause of the Great Depression |
| Mackenzie King | 5 cent speech |
| Relief Camps | Make work projects for unemployed men during the Depression |
| Adolf Hitler | Mein Kampf |
| Nuremberg Laws | Removed citzenship from Jewish German citizens |
| Holocaust | Over 6 million people were killed in concentration camps because of their Jewish heritage |
| Plebiscite | Vote held on conscription to let Mackenzie King out of his promise of no conscription in WWII |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | U.S. enters WWII |
| Japanese Canadian Internment | Concerns citizens would be disloyal and were put in camps for the duration of WWII |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allied Powers | France, Britain, Canada, Russia |
| Battle of Britain | Aerial bombing of civilians in Britain by Germany's Luftwaffe |
| Dieppe | Disaster |
| D-Day | Success at Juno Beach |
| Hong Kong | All Canadians were captured or killed |
| Battle of the Atlantic | U-boats hunting Allied cargo ships |
| Little Boy, Fat Man | Atomic Bombs |
| Yalta Conference | End of WWII |
| Igor Gouzenko | Soviet spy who warned Canada of its involvement in the cold war. |
| Baby Boom | Increase in population after the end of WWII. |
| Women in the 1950s | Women were told to leave the workplace and return to their traditional roles as wives and mothers. |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | First time Canadians felt directly threatened by the possibility of a nuclear attack |
| Victory Bond | Savings certificates sold to Canadians to help pay for the cost of WWI |
| War Measures Act | An emergency act that gave the federal government the power to make quick, unchallenged decisions in times of war. |
| Sovereignty-association | The idea that Quebec should be politically independent from Canada, but still maintain close economic ties |
| Separatism | The political idea that supports establishing Quebec as an independent nation |
| Relief | Financial assistance from the government - today it is called welfare |
| peacekeeping | Actively keeping the peace between nations or regions through international military and non-military efforts. |
| Just Society | Pierre Trudeau's vision of creating a country based on principles of freedom, equality, and compassion. |
| Iron Curtain | Boundary between communist and capitalist states in Europe |
| Great Depression | A time of economic hardship that began with a stock market crash. |
| Distinct society | An expression used to describe Quebec's unique place in Canadian society |
| Anti-Semitism | An attitude of hatred toward Jewish people or a policy that discriminates against Jewish citizens. |
| Vietnam War | Canada only sent volunteers into this captialistic/communism conflict, while the U.S. drafted people into the army. |
| NATO | Canada is part of this post WWII military alliance. |
| Warsaw Pact | Alliance between the communist countries after WWII |
| Berlin Wall | Built to separate East and West Germany |
| FLQ | Group that kidnapped Pierre LaPorte and James Cross |
| Hippies | Rebelled against society through music, clothing, and protests |
| Brian Mulroney | Introduced the GST, Free Trade (NAFTA) and failed to pass Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords |
| Rene Levesque | Held a referendum on sovereignty-association that failed to pass |
| Quiet Revolution | Quebec government urged Quebecois to become masters of their own house "Maitres chez nous", modernize Quebec |
| Official Languages Act | Pierre Trudeau passed this legislation making Canada an official bilingual nation |
| Bill 22 | Robert Bourassa passed this bill that made French the only official language in Quebec |
| Bill 101 | Rene Levesque replaced Bill 22, banning the use of English in government and business in Quebec |
| Repatriating the Constitution | The constitution came fully under Canada's control and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was introduced |
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