Roaring Twenties
Great Depression
World War II: Canada at war
World War II: The Home Front
World War II: Key Terms
100
Assembly Line
What is an arrangement of workers, machines, and equipment in which the product being assembled passes consecutively from operation to operation until completed?
100
Stock Market Crash
What marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
100
Axis powers
What was the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II?
100
The year 1949
When did Newfoundland join Canada?
100
Dictator
What is a ruler with absolute power and authority?
200
Prosperity
What is a time when the economy is making money?
200
Unemployment
What is the state of searching for or having no work?
200
Invasion of Poland
What is often stated as the beginning of World War II?
200
Propaganda
What is a form of communication aimed at convincing you of something?
200
front
What is the place where the actual fighting is going on during a war?
300
Working Poor
What is a term that describes someone who works for wages that are so low they can barely survive?
300
Dust Bowl
What was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s?
300
D-Day
What is day that commenced the invasion of Normandy by the Allied forces (most notably the United Kingdom and the British commonwealth, and the United States)?
300
A significant number of able bodied men being sent off at war.
What was the reasons for so many women entering the workforce?
300
Holocaust
What is murder by the Nazis of the Jews and others in WWII?
400
Secondary industry
What makes finished products from raw materials (primary industry) that are more likely to be consumed by individuals?
400
Depression
What is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economy?
400
Raid of Dieppe
What is the 1942 failed invasion of the port of Dieppe by Great Britain and Canada?
400
Japanese internment camps
What refers to the confinement of Japanese Canadians in large detention centers following the attack on Pearl Harbor?
400
Genocide
What is the systematic and deliberate killing of a racial or cultural group?
500
Mass media
What is a means of public communication reaching a large audience?
500
Jobs created by government sponsored production of war materials.
What ended the Great Depression?
500
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What are the two Japanese cities where the United States dropped atomic bombs at the end of the war?
500
Unemployment Insurance and Family Allowance ("Baby Bonus")
What are two government programs introduced during World War II?
500
Blitzkreig
What is "lightning" like military tactic used by the Germans in World War II?
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