The period of years that it takes a country to double its population at its current birth rate.
What is doubling time?
100
The power to govern oneself and make one's own decisions.
What is autonomy?
100
The refusal to obey or follow laws one believes to be unjust or unfair; the intentional breaking of the law to gain the attention of government.
What is civil disobedience?
100
A British passenger liner that was sunk by a U-boat, killing close to 1200 passengers.
What was the Lusitania?
100
The name of Hitler's invasion of the USSR.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
200
The difference between number of births and the number of deaths, often given per thousand people.
What is natural increase?
200
A concern for the affairs of one's own region over those of one's country.
What is regionalism?
200
A person who is hired to represent the interests of a pressure group by influencing policy decision makers in the group's favour.
What is a lobbyist?
200
The right of a person under arrest to be brought before a judge to determine the lawfulness of the arrest. This right was suspended under the War Measures Act.
What is habeas corpus?
200
The alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy.
What is the Axis?
300
A bar graph that depicts the population of an area by age groups and gender.
What is a population pyramid?
300
Factories, offices, or other operations set up in Canada but owned or controlled by U.S. or other foreign companies.
What are branch plants?
300
The principle that people are governed by laws, and that no person is above the law.
What is the rule of law?
300
The two warships that Canada was equipped with before the war.
What was the Rainbow and the Niobe?
300
Small warships built to escort convoys across the ocean.
What are corvettes?
400
An age group in a population, for example, the numbers of people between the ages of 13 and 19.
What is a cohort?
400
A direct vote by electors on an issue of public importance. The outcome of the vote may not be binding on the government.
What is a plebiscite?
400
Law that has been passed as legislation by federal, provincial, or municipal governments.
What is statutory law?
400
The French vessel that was carrying more than 2500 tons of dynamite the was hit by another ship in Halifax.
What is the Mont Blanc?
400
The name of the German air force.
What is Luftwaffe?
500
The populated area of the world
What is ecumene?
500
Claims by Aboriginal people to lands that their ancestors inhabited.
What is aboriginal title?
500
A favour, often a government position, given in return for political support.
What is patronage?
500
A person who refuses military service on the grounds of religious or moral opposition to war.
What is a conscientious objector?
500
The Canadian war correspondent who accompanied the troops to Dieppe.