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Basic Years-People
another list of important people and years for SS11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1903 | Alaska Boundary Dispute |
| 1914 | World War One Begins |
| 1916 | Women get the vote in most of Canada |
| 1917 | Vimy Ridge |
| 1918 | World War One Ends |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash |
| 1935 | On to Ottawa Trek |
| 1939 | Start of WWII -Poland invaded |
| 1940 | France is defeated |
| 1941 | England is attacked later the USSR |
| 1942 | Dieppe Raid |
| 1943 | Stalingrad Battle |
| 1944 | D-Day or Normandy invasion or Operation Overlord |
| 1945 | End of WWII and start of Cold War. |
| 1948 | Berlin Blockade |
| 1949 | NATO formed and Soviets get the nuke and Communist China established! |
| 1950 | Korean War |
| 1956 | Suez Crisis - Lester Pearson? |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1964 | Vietnam War - Americans enter the war |
| 1980 | Quebec Referendum on separation |
| 1982 | Canada brings home or patriates the constitution, also we get our Canadian Rights and Freedoms Act. |
| 1989 | End of Cold War - Berlin Wall opened, USSR gone! later Tiananmen Square |
| 1987 | Meech Lake Accord |
| 1991 | Gulf War |
| 1992 | Charlottetown Accord |
| 1992-95 | Bosnian War with Serbs, Croats, Bosnians |
| 1994 | Rwanda War with Hutu after the Tutsis |
| Macphail, Agnes | was the only woman in Canada to be elected to the House of Commons in 1921, the first year in which women had the vote |
| Wilfred Laurier | PM turn of century |
| Emily Carr | artist Group of Seven |
| Mackenzie King | Liberal PM for almost 22 years in the 20's 30's and 40's |
| RB Bennett | Conservative PM 1930-35 "New Deal", |
| J.S. Woodsworth | founder of CCF |
| William Aberhart | Bible Bill, Social Credit |
| Mussolini | Italian Fascist leader WWII |
| Hitler | German Fascist leader WWII |
| Stalin | Soviet Communist leader WWII |
| Churchil | British leader WWII |
| Roosevelt | American leader WWII |
| John Diefenbaker | Conservative PM 1957-63 , cancelled Avro Arrow |
| John Kennedy | American president during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Fidel Castro | Cuban communist president during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Khrushchev | Soviet Communist leader during Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| Pierre Trudeau | - Liberal PM in 60's, 70's and 80's. - Official Languages Act, Canada Constitution, |
| Brian Mulroney | Conservative PM in 80's and 90's - Free Trade |
| Tommy Douglas | introduced Medicare in Sask. |
| Terry Fox (July 28, 1958 – June 28, 1981) | was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He became famous for the Marathon of Hope, a cross-Canada run to raise money for cancer research, running with one prosthetic leg. |
| Jean Chrétien | Liberal PM, 1993-2003 |
| James Cross | British diplomat in Canada who was kidnapped and later released by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) terrorist group during the October Crisis of October 1970. |
| Pierre Laporte | Canadian politician was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ. |
| Rene Levesque | Parti Québécois or PQ leader |
| Chief Dan George | Salish chief and actor |
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kstokowski
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