THEMES
This theme includes the White Paper, Residential Schools, and the Oka Standoff.
What is treatment of Indigenous People/Indigenous Protest
Based on the prompt, what historical concept is used.
The Holocaust resulted in the death of approx. 6 million Jewish people greatly impacting the community.
What is Historical Significance
The fear or dislike of anything which is perceived as being foreign or strange.
What is xenophobia
Known as the day of the Stock Market Crash
What is Black Tuesday
Refers to a significant period of socio-political and socio-cultural transformation in French Canada, particularly in Quebec, following the election of 1960. Includes events like the emergence of the Parti Quebecois, The FLQ terrorism, and the Royal Commission of Bilingualism and Biculturalism.
What is the Quiet Revolution
This theme includes the Chinese Exclusion Act, Antisemitism, Japanese Internment, and the LGBTQ+ Purge.
What is Treatment of Visible and Religious Minorities
Due to Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, World War One happened.
The treaty the ended WW1
Under Hitler's rule, Jewish people had to begin wearing an armband with a David's Star, Jewish businesses where closed or destroyed, Jewish passports were stamped with a J.
What is antisemitism
Events include Gouzenko Affair, Arms Race, and Korean War
This theme includes Women's Movements and Rights, The Persons Case, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
What is Treatment of Women
The Famous Five fought in the Persons Case because they believed that women should be considered persons. They eventually won the case and it allowed for women to be considered persons and have more equal rights.
What is Cause and Consequences
This Battle was the introduction to a new weapon, Chlorine Gas. To prevent themselves from being poisoned, soldiers would urinate into handkerchiefs and hold them over their mouth and nose.
What is Battle of Ypres
Hitler becomes chancellor, reichstag fire, enabling act, night of long knives, death of president hindenburg, oath of loyalty
What is Hitler's Rise to Power
In Nova Scotia, a town was destroyed leaving many people without homes and displaced. To remove the residence of the town, they moved them in garbage trucks. This can be seen as an act of racism.
What is Africville
This theme includes Over-reliance on the U.S.A, NATO, UN, and the War in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What is International Relations and American-Canadian Relations
Pierre Trudeau's Just Society Speech gives us insight into the society at the time and how he wanted it to change for the better.
What is historical perspective
A war scare in September 1922 between the United Kingdom and the Government of the Grand National Assembly in Turkey.
What is the Chanak Affair
After Germany surrendered, war still was occurring in Japan. This resulted in the end of the war.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Between the 1950s and the 1990s, the Canadian government responded to national security concerns generated by Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union by spying on, exposing and removing suspected LGBTQ individuals from the federal public service and the Canadian Armed Forces
What is The Gay Purge
This theme includes the Winnipeg General Strike, Relief Camps, and On-to-Ottawa Trek.
What is Labour and Unionism
Despite the slow closure of residential schools Indigenous people were allowed to begin cultural practices again. However, the 60's scoop continued to take Indigenous children away from their families.
What is Continuity and Change
Germany had to accept blame for the war, pay reparations for the damage done, were forbidden to have submarines and an airforce, and lost land to Europe.
What is the result of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany
This battle is the largest seaborne invasion and began the liberation of France and western Europe.
What is D-Day or Juno Beach
Signed by President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney on January 2, 1988, with the goal of eliminating all tariffs on trade between the two countries.A
The Free-Trade Agreement