WWI
Long, narrow ditches dug into the ground, forming complex networks that served as defensive positions for soldiers, providing protection from modern weapons like machine guns and artillery
What are the trenches?
Government measure (1919–1933 in the U.S.; varied in Canada) that outlawed the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages and spurred bootlegging.
What is Prohibition?
The 1941 surprise aerial and naval attack by Japan that brought the United States into WWII.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
The geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union that featured proxy wars, nuclear arms races, and ideological conflict.
What is the Cold War?
Canada's current Prime Minister today.
Who is Mark Carney?
The dangerous, exposed area between opposing front-line trenches that attackers had to cross during assaults.
What is No Man’s Land?
The 1930s ecological disaster of severe dust storms that devastated prairie agriculture in Canadian parries.
What is the Dust Bowl?
The alliance including the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Canada, and others who fought against enemy powers.
Who are the Allied Powers?
The term for a war involving direct large-scale combat between superpowers, as opposed to the indirect competition of the Cold War.
What is a hot war?
The province in which Canada hosted the 2010 Winter Olympics
Where is Vancouver?
The 1917 campaign where British and Canadian troops captured key high ground at ___ Ridge.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
The 1920s cultural shift featuring short skirts, bobbed hair, jazz, and greater social freedom for women.
What are flappers or the Roaring Twenties?
The secret underground research program that developed the atomic bombs dropped on Japan.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The fortified barrier built in 1961 that became the physical symbol of Cold War division between East and West of ____ Country.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This famous Canadian protest was the Mohawk people protecting their sacred burial grounds and Land
What is the Oka Crisis?
This condition, caused by cold, wet trenches and poor circulation, could lead to gangrene and required amputation in severe cases.
What is trench foot?
The 1935 protest that began with unemployed men riding trains to Ottawa to demand relief but ended after a violent clash in Regina.
What is the On-to-Ottawa Trek (Regina Riot)?
The policy and large-scale deportation and imprisonment of Japanese-Canadians and Japanese-Americans during the war.
What are Japanese internment camps?
The Canadian advocate who helped draft the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and played a leading role at the UN.
Who is John Humphrey?
Canada's first Indigenous Premier.
Who is Wabb Kinew?
The 1919 major industrial unrest in Winnipeg where returning veterans and workers protested for better wages and conditions.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
The 1935 legal victory in Canada led by five women which recognized that “persons” include women for appointment to the Senate.
What is The Person’s Case?
The 1942 Allied raid on German-occupied French coastline intended to test German defenses and gather intelligence, it ended disastrously for Canadian forces.
What is the Dieppe Raid?
2 famous musicians both named David- that played music at the tearing down of the Berlin wall.
Who is David Bowie and David Hasselhoff?
The Canadian Prime Minister that gave a formal apology to Indigenous people of Canada and the survivors of residential schools.
Who is the Stephen Harper?