WWII
The Holocaust primarily targeted this group, in addition to Roma, LGBTQ+ people, prisoners of war, and disabled people.
Who are Jewish people?
This organization, that has grown to include 193 members, was formed in an attempt to prevent future conflict.
What is the United Nations?
The large-scale removal of Indigenous children from their homes by child welfare agencies is known as this.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
What was the goal of the Parti Quebecois in the 1980 referendum?
What is separatism?
or
What is sovereignty?
This event led to Canada joining the United States and other countries in the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
What is September 11?
or
What is 9/11?
In addition to the internment of Germans and Italians, Canada forced this group of people to move away from the coast into camps, and confiscated their property and homes.
Who are Japanese-Canadians?
Igor Gouzenko revealed a network of this working in Canada and the US.
What are spies?
This device first became available for home use in the late 1970s, and increasingly common throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
What is the home computer?
The Front de Liberation du Quebec committed these crimes against a Quebec cabinet minister.
What are kidnapping and murder?
The Indian Act is a set of laws that outlines government policies towards this group of people.
Who are Indigenous people?
or
Who are First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people?
This province was the only one to vote against releasing the federal government from its promise not to implement Conscription.
What is Quebec?
An agreement between some North American and European countries to defend each other against attacks.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
In addition to universal health care, Lester Pearson also led Canada when it got a new one of these.
What is a flag?
The large-scale social reforms in Quebec in the 1960s was given this name.
What is the Quiet Revolution?
Since the 1970s, Canada has accepted an increasing number of this type of immigrant, often fleeing war or percsecution in their home countries.
Who are refugees?
Because of its relationship with Britain, its natural resources, and large open spaces, this country was used as a supplier of goods and a pilot training ground for the Allies.
What is Canada?
Lester Pearson won this prize for his role in ending the Suez Crisis by helping to develop UN peacekeeping.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?
In 1988, Canada instituted a Free Trade Agreement with this country. Later, it would also include Mexico.
What is the United States?
This law required all federal government services to be offered in both English and French.
What is the Official Languages Act?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission gave this number of recommendations for the federal government to address the legacy of residential schools.
What is 94?
Canada declared this on its own after a vote by Parliament.
What is war on Germany?
Soldiers returning home, optimism after the war, and a growing economy led to a booming number of this.
What are births?
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What are babies?
In 1982, this document was put into law along with Canada's Constitution Act.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
The failed attempt to have Quebec sign on to the Constitution Act by giving them recognition as a 'distinct society' is named after this lake where the deal was first negotiated.
What is Meech Lake?
Toronto's first Pride Parades happened in the 1980s, after this event rallied the LGBTQ+ community in Toronto.
What is Operation Soap?