World War I
Between the Wars
World War II
Post WWII
Terms
100
The name of the assailant that assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the name of the "terrorist" group to which he belonged.
What is Gavrilo Princip of the Black Hand?
100
The illegal business of transporting alcohol where it is prohibited.
What is rum-running?
100
A poorly-planned battle in which thousands of Canadian soldiers were mowed down before most even got a chance to fight.
What is Dieppe?
100
Established in 1949, a mutual agreement between countries to come to a country's defense if there is an attack by an external force.
What is N.A.T.O?
100
The compulsory enlistment of citizens for military service. Strongly opposed by French-Canadians.
What is conscription?
200
These are the countries that made up the Triple Entente.
What are Britain, France, and Russia?
200
The major event where over 30, 000 Canadians walked out of their jobs in protest of unfair working conditions and poor wages.
What is the Winnipeg General Strike?
200
In 1938, when over 200 synagogues, and over 8000 Jewish shops were destroyed.
What is Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
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
Complete the following statement:
Emily Murphy and the rest of the ___________________, took the ___________________ all the way to Privy Council where it was ruled that women would legally be considered ________________ and were now eligible to hold a seat in ______________.
What are:
Famous Five
Persons Case
Person
Senate?
300
This is the event that brought the US into the war and helped the government to justify these two major things (among many others) to happen to Japanese-Canadians during WWII.
What is the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese and what is seizure and sale of Japanese-Canadians' property as well as their internment?
300
This is the man who defected to the West after stealing files from the Soviet Embassy to prove that espionage activity was occurring in Canada.
Who is Igor Gouzenko?
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
These are the four major Canadian Battles of WWI, in the correct order.
What are the Battles of Ypres, Somme, Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele?
400
This is the name of the young boy shown in the photo below and the significance of this imagery.
Who is Thomas Moore Keesick and what are Residential schools that were government-sponsored religious schools established to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture which disrupted lives and communities, causing long-term problems among Indigenous peoples?
400
How did the role of women change during World War Two?
What is the women once again entered the workforce, contributed through volunteering and sending care-packages in the war effort and enlisted in the armed forces, which offered new independence and fueled movements for gender equality?
400
"Duck and Cover" was a part of these practiced during the Cold War.
What are Civil Defense Procedures?
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
These are the terms that complete the following statement.
The _________________________________ gave the Canadian government the powers maintain security and order during war or insurrection, which included interning _____________________, especially from the countries of ______________ and _____________.
What are:
War Measures Act
enemy aliens
Germany
Austria-Hungary?
500
The market crash of 1929 was a symptom that happened on this day, but the main causes of the Great Depression were....
What is October 29, 1929 a.k.a. Black Tuesday and what are:
Canada’s Dependence on the United States
Over-Production and Over-Expansion
Canada’s Dependence on a Few Primary Products
High Tariffs Choke Off International Trade
Too Much Credit Buying
Too Much Credit Buying of Stocks
500
The reason that D-Day is significant.
What is Canadians had a major role to land on their own beach, Juno Beach, and they were the most successful of all the Normandy landings, clearing an area for Allied forces to infiltrate Europe leading to the liberation of the Netherlands?
500
This is the idea brought forth by Lester Pearson for which he won Nobel Peace Prize and this is the issue for which the proposal was made.
What is the creation of a United Nations Emergency Force which was a UN peace-keeping force proposed to secure an end to the Suez Crisis?
500
The doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
