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This was the name of the WWI alliance between Britain, France and Russia.
What is the Triple Entente?
100
These are regular payments to a stock holder just for owning the stock.
What are dividends?
100
This is the name given to the dust storm conditions of the Prairies in the 1930s.
What is the Dust Bowl?
100
This event drew Britain and then Canada into war against Germany in 1939.
What is the Invasion of Poland?
100
The period of heightening tensions between the West and the Soviet Union in the post war period?
What is the Cold War?
200
This is the name of the alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary & Italy.
What is the Triple Alliance?
200
This is the witty and well-read ideal of womanhood in the period before the 1920s.
What is the Gibson Girl?
200
This is the name given to a horse drawn car by people who were critical of the Canadian Prime Minister Bennett.
What is a Bennett Buggy?
200
The French port where the Canadians conducted a disastrous raid in an attempt to steal an Enigma Machine.
What is Dieppe?
200
The name given to the war, fought between NATO forces and the and Chinese from 1950-1953.
What is the Korean War?
300
Developed in 1902, this was Germany's plan for war against France & Russia.
What was the Schlieffen Plan?
300
This is an illegal bar/nightclub during the Prohibition Era.
What is a Speakeasy?
300
This is the name given to the trip taken by thousands of unemployed men to Ottawa to protest the government's work camp program.
What is the On to Ottawa Trek?
300
The name of the battle where Canadian soldiers first fought in WWII.
What is the Battle of Hong Kong?
300
The defensive alliance between the nations of Western Europe and North America.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
400
This event sparked the beginning of the First World War.
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
400
This is the name of the name of the famous law case that decided that women were legally persons under the law.
What is The Persons Case?
400
The name given to the confrontation between police and men from work camps that stopped the On to Ottawa trek?
What is the Regina Riot?
400
The name given to the area of Normandy Beach assigned to the Canadian troops on D-Day.
What is Juno Beach?
400
A long range missile that can deliver a nuclear weapon to targets across the globe.
What is an I.C.B.M. (Inter Continental Ballistic Missile)?
500
This is the nickname given to the Canadian Corps by the Germans in the Battle of the Somme.
What is 'storm troop'?
500
This is the phrase used it in the 20s when one pays 10% down and borrows the rest when buying stocks.
What is buying on margin?
500
The start of WWII finally brought an end to these ten years of high unemployment.
What is The Great Depression?
500
The Japanese city where the first Atomic bomb was dropped.
What is Hiroshima?
500
The Canadian diplomat, later Prime Minister, who won the Nobel Prize for 'inventing' peace-keeping.
Who is Lester B. Pearson?