An international organization founded at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919.
What is the League of Nations?
100
The year that women get the vote.
What is 1918?
100
A person of pure-German blood, superior to any others.
What is aryan?
100
This agreement, signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States was entered into force on 1 January 1994 in order to establish a trilateral trade bloc in North America.
What is NAFTA?
100
The compulsory enlistment of citizens for military service. Strongly opposed by French Canadians.
What is conscription?
200
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism.
What are the causes of World War One?
200
The illegal business of transporting alcohol where it is prohibited.
What is rum-running?
200
A poorly-planned battle in which thousands of Canadian soldiers were mowed down before most even got a chance to fight.
What is Dieppe?
200
A US and Canadian organization that provides aerospace defense and warnings.
What is NORAD?
200
A diplomatic policy of yielding to a dictatorial power in order to avoid a threatened conflict.
What is appeasement?
300
A document signed after World War One, requiring Germany to take the blame for the war.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
300
30, 000 Canadians walk out of their jobs in protest of unemployment rates and inflation.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
300
In 1938, when over 200 synagogues, 8,000 Jewish shops were destroyed, and tens of thousands of Jewish people were sent to concentration camps.
What is Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
300
The jet fighter that's construction was controversially cancelled in 1959.
What is the Avro Arrow?
300
The policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.
What is imperialism?
400
A battle fought in April 1917. It was the first time Canadians fought together, yet they took more ground, guns, and prisoners than any British force had ever taken.
What is Vimy Ridge?
400
A group of artists that formed in 1920.
What is the Group of Seven?
400
How did the role of women change during World War Two?
Entering the workforce offered new independence and fueled movements for gender equality.
400
The Quebec nationalist group that through the 1960s were responsible for the deaths of 6 people, and over 200 violent crimes and bombings.
What is the FLQ?
400
A type of social organization in which all property is owned by a group or community, not by individuals. Prominent in Stalin's Soviet Russia in the Second World War.
What is communism?
500
Name 2 differences between WW1 and WW2.
Number of deaths, methods of warfare.
500
Thanks to Henrietta Muir Edwards and four other women, this refers to the acknowledgment that women can hold public office.
What is the Person's Case?
500
The reason that D-Day is significant.
Canadians had a major role (their own beach), most successful of all the Normandy landings, cleared an area for Allied forces to infiltrate Europe leading to the liberation of the Netherlands
500
A movement in the 1960's during which Quebec went through rapid change and modernization. Also, characterized by the spread of Quebec nationalism and the desire to separate from Canada.
What is the Quiet Revolution?
500
The code name for the Battle of Normandy, which included battles at Juno Beach.