Woeful Wars
Name for a competition between 2 countries to build and develop weapons as quickly as possible
Arms Race
Describe the main goal of the Residential School System in it's early years.
Assimilation. To "kill the Indian in the child"
Briefly describe the basic difference between capitalism and communism
Capitalism: private ownership of businesses, competition is king.
Communism: Government ownership of businesses, government controls the market.
Describe how airplanes changed during the early 1900's
small, slow, wood and canvas biplanes, to large, sleek, fast, single winged, metal designs.
Describe how the Cold War got it's name
The two sides (US and the USSR) weren't openly fighting, but competed in other ways and fought proxy wars.
Name for the condition a soldier might face first experienced during trench warfare. Now considered to be PTSD.
Shell Shock
The Avro Arrow was:
A Canadian designed and built interceptor (airplane). It's program was controversially scrapped in 1959.
Define Gerrymandering
The process of cheating in an election by redrawing electoral district boundaries
The name for this when a specific type of medicine stops working.
Antibiotic Resistence
A Red Scare is:
A state of public hysteria about the spread of communism
What does "Blitzkrieg" refer to?
"Lightening War": The new tactic from Germany where tanks and vehicles were used to advance across enemy territory very quickly.
What were the motivations of the FLQ during the October Crisis
Quebec separatism
Describe how a minority government happens.
A political party wins the most seats, but less than half of the total.
Name 1 technology that saw widespread use as a weapon for the first time in WW1:
Machine Guns, Artillary, Tanks, Airplanes, Bombs
In what country is Juno beach located?
France
What does BCATP stand for?
British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
The name of the act that brought several provinces together to form Canada
The British North America Act (BNA Act)
What is the name of the communist group that siezed power during the Russian Revolution?
The Bolsheviks
Name the basic component of a computer that we have been making smaller and smaller
Silicon Transistor
What group saw some of their voting rights removed after WW2?
Indigenous peoples
What is the name or type of the bomber that dropped nuclear weapons on Japan?
The Enola Gay: A B-29
How did the Oka Crisis start, and how many people died?
The city tried to expand a golf course onto a burial ground. 2 deaths.
Name every party that currently holds a seat in parliament
Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, QC, Green
Describe the agricultural technology that contributed to crop failures during the dirty 30's
The moldboard plow
This commodity caused an explosion of interest and growth in Canada
Beaver Pelts