Government
This is Canada’s system of government combining monarchy and democracy.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This assassination in 1914 sparked WWI.
Who was Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Germany invading this country in 1939 triggered WWII.
What is Poland?
This conflict was mainly between these two superpowers.
Who are the USA and the Soviet Union?
These schools were designed to assimilate Indigenous children.
What are residential schools?
This type of economy combines government and private business.
What is a mixed economy?
This document, created in 1982, protects Canadians’ rights and freedoms.
What is the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
This type of warfare involved soldiers fighting from dug-out trenches.
What is trench warfare?
This was used to influence public opinion during the war.
What is propaganda?
This provoked McCarthyism.
The Red Scare (fear of Communism)
This commission addressed harms caused by residential schools.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
This group advocates for workers’ rights and wages.
What is a labour union?
This level of government is responsible for education in Canada.
What is the provincial government?
Canada entered WWI because of its connection to this country.
What is Britain?
Approximately 6 million Jewish people died in this event.
What is the Holocaust
This military alliance includes Canada and the USA.
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This system forced First Nations people onto specific lands.
What are reserves?
This term refers to a period of economic decline.
What is a recession?
This person represents the monarch in Canada.
Who is the Governor General?
This battle in 1917 became a defining moment for Canadian identity.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This 1944 invasion helped turn the tide in Europe.
What is D-Day (Normandy invasion)?
This event in 1962 brought the world the closest to nuclear war that it's ever been.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Number of calls to action that have been completed.
What is 14?
This global event in the 1930s caused widespread unemployment and poverty.
What is the Great Depression?
This division of power outlines responsibilities between federal and provincial governments.
What is the Constitution (Constitution Act)?
This treaty officially ended WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
These bombings in 1945 helped end WWII in the Pacific.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Term used to describe efforts preventing the spread of nuclear weapons
What is non-proliferation?
This ongoing process aims to repair relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.
What is reconciliation?
This occurs when prices for goods and services rise over time, reducing purchasing power.
What is inflation?