Foreign Political History
The Year the Soviet Union collapsed.
1991.
Contentious River Split Between Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan.
The Nile River.
Gave the famous, "I have a dream" speech.
Martin Luther King.
The deadliest conflict in human history.
World War II.
Battle of WWI which is considered Canada's time of upbringing.
Battle of Vimy Ridge.
French revolutionary who presided over the "Reign of Terror."
Maximillien Robespierre.
The common name for the North-South Korean border.
The Demilitarised Zone (DMZ).
Swedish activist bringing climate change paradigms to mainstream politics.
Greta Thunberg.
The justification for the invasion of Iraq in 1990 by the global community.
The Iraqi Annexation of Kuwait.
Often considered Canada's magnum opus on the global stage of diplomacy, helped to establish this branch of the UN after the Suez Crisis.
The Peacekeepers.
The fall of this city in 1453, presented an existential crisis for European Christians, leading to various kingdoms to push for colonisation in the New World.
Constantinople (Istanbul).
The arbitrary line that is the basis for most of the US-Canada border.
The 49th parallel (NORTH).
The widespread discontent and rebellions across the Arab world that started in Tunisia within the year of 2011.
Was called the "War to End All Wars" at the time of its occurrence.
World War I.
When Canada took control of its own foreign policy (formally) with the establishment of the Department of External Affairs (now Global Affairs Canada).
1909.
Although a founding member of NATO, this country left the alliance in 1966 only to rejoin 43 years later in 2009.
France.
The two most commonly used mountain ranges to define the borders between Europe and Asia.
The Urals and the Caucuses.
Name of the revolution which saw the ousting of Ukranian president Yanukovich and the Russian seizer of Crimea.
Euromaidan.
The Deadliest War (civil or interstate) since World War II.
The covert mission to rescue American hostages during the Iranian hostage crisis.
The Canadian Caper.
This UNSC leader supposedly took off their shoe and banged it on the desk in the General Assembly in 1960 to protest a speech by the Filipino delegation.
Nikita Khrushchev.
Chokepoint in the Persian Gulf, critical for the stable flow of oil and gas to the rest of the world.
The Strait of Hormuz.
Polish movement led by Lech Walesa to protest the authoritarian, and anti-labour, military junta of 1981.
Solidarity.
What some scholars dub as the "Real First World War" as the conflict spanned all continents (aside from Australia and Antarctica) and lasted from 1756-1763.
The Seven Years' War.
The first Canadian rejection of a call to arms from the British to aid in this war in 1919 due to war exhaustion from the recently concluded Great War.
The Turkish War of Independence.