another list of important people and years for SS11
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| 1903 | Alaska Boundary Dispute
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| 1914 | World War One Begins
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| 1916 | Women get the vote in most of Canada
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| 1917 | Vimy Ridge
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| 1918 | World War One Ends
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| 1929 | Stock Market Crash
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| 1935 | On to Ottawa Trek
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| 1939 | Start of WWII -Poland invaded
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| 1940 | France is defeated
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| 1941 | England is attacked later the USSR
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| 1942 | Dieppe Raid
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| 1943 | Stalingrad Battle
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| 1944 | D-Day or Normandy invasion or Operation Overlord
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| 1945 | End of WWII and start of Cold War.
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| 1948 | Berlin Blockade
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| 1949 | NATO formed and Soviets get the nuke and Communist China established!
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| 1950 | Korean War
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| 1956 | Suez Crisis - Lester Pearson?
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| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis
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| 1964 | Vietnam War - Americans enter the war
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| 1980 | Quebec Referendum on separation
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| 1982 | Canada brings home or patriates the constitution, also we get our Canadian Rights and Freedoms Act.
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| 1989 | End of Cold War - Berlin Wall opened, USSR gone! later Tiananmen Square
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| 1987 | Meech Lake Accord
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| 1991 | Gulf War
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| 1992 | Charlottetown Accord
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| 1992-95 | Bosnian War with Serbs, Croats, Bosnians
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| 1994 | Rwanda War with Hutu after the Tutsis
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| 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
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| Wilfred Laurier | PM turn of century
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| Emily Carr | artist Group of Seven
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| Mackenzie King | Liberal PM for almost 22 years in the 20's 30's and 40's
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| RB Bennett | Conservative PM 1930-35 "New Deal",
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| J.S. Woodsworth | founder of CCF
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| William Aberhart | Bible Bill, Social Credit
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| Mussolini | Italian Fascist leader WWII
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| Hitler | German Fascist leader WWII
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| Stalin | Soviet Communist leader WWII
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| Churchil | British leader WWII
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| Roosevelt | American leader WWII
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| John Diefenbaker | Conservative PM 1957-63 , cancelled Avro Arrow
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| John Kennedy | American president during Cuban Missile Crisis
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| Fidel Castro | Cuban communist president during Cuban Missile Crisis
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| Khrushchev | Soviet Communist leader during Cuban Missile Crisis.
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| Pierre Trudeau | - Liberal PM in 60's, 70's and 80's. - Official Languages Act, Canada Constitution,
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| Brian Mulroney | Conservative PM in 80's and 90's - Free Trade
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| Tommy Douglas | introduced Medicare in Sask.
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| 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.
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| Jean Chrétien | Liberal PM, 1993-2003
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| 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.
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| Pierre Laporte | Canadian politician was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ.
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| Rene Levesque | Parti Québécois or PQ leader
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| Chief Dan George | Salish chief and actor
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