Significant People
The World Wars
Between the Wars
Post-War Period
Modern Canada
100
As the first elected MP for the NDP in 1961, he fought for universal health care across Canada.
Who is Tommy Douglas?
100
Great Britain, France and Russia during the First World War.
What is the Triple Alliance?
100
The nickname for October 29, 1929, when the stock market crashed ushering in the start of the Great Depression.
What is Black Tuesday?
100
The year the Maple Leaf was introduced as Canada's new flag.
What is 1965?
100
Signed in 1965, this trade agreement with the United States eliminated tariffs in the auto industry, increasing Canadian employment and investments in this sector.
What is the Auto Pact?
200
Envisioned a Canada with a strong federal state and a set of laws that protected all people equally.
Who is Pierre Trudeau.
200
This agreement was signed in 1938 and permitted Germany to annex the Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, as a part of a policy of appeasement.
What is the Munich Agreement?
200
The ban on the sale and distribution of alcohol.
What is prohibition
200
This important document was written by Canadian John Humphrey and was unanimously adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948.
What is the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
200
This government organization was created to coordinate and allocate aid from government sources, religious organizations, and charitable groups.
What is the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA)?
300
Quebec labour minister who was kidnapped and murdered by the FLQ in 1970.
Who is Pierre Laporte?
300
A government law that threatened to divide Canada along English and French lines during both World Wars.
What is conscription?
300
A large protest where workers fought for higher wages and better working conditions which ended on "Bloody Saturday," when the Northwest Mounted Police were called in.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
300
In June 1947 the US announced this massive aid program to help rebuild Europe and to fight the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This separatist organization was responsible for terrorist activities in Quebec throughout the 1960s culminating in the October Crisis in 1970.
What is the Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ)?
400
He was founder of the Parti Quebecois and went head-to-head with Prime Minister Trudeau on the issue of sovereignty-association in the 1980 referendum.
Who is Rene Levesque
400
A First World War battle considered by some to be the birth of Canada, as an independent nation.
What is Vimy Ridge?
400
A new political party formed by J.S. Woodsworth in Winnipeg in 1932. The party blamed the capitalist system for the Great Depression and recommended a series of socialist policies including, the nationalization of key industries and improved healthcare and social services.
What is the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation?
400
This organization was formed in 1949 with an aim to protect members from possible attacks from enemy nations, like the Soviet Union.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
400
This means to bring him Canada's constitution.
What is patriate?
500
An influential thinker in the 1960s who was interested in how media impacted society and the way people thought.
Who is Marshall McLuhan?
500
In an effort to assure victory in the election of 1917, Prime Minister Borden passed a law allowing some women the right to vote for the first time in Canada.
What is the Wartime Elections Act?
500
List three causes of the Great Depression.
What are - Easy access to credit - A lack of financial regulations for banks - Shrinking demand for Canadian exports - Close economic ties to the United States - Costly protective tariffs
500
What are two megaprojects that helped the Canadian economy to grow in the post-war period?
What are: -Trans-Canada Highway - Trans-Canada Pipeline - St. Lawrence Seaway - Nechako-Kemano Diversion
500
This clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms allows provincial governments to pass laws that violate certain Charter rights.
What is the Notwithstanding Clause?
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