Nation and Identity
This term refers to a shared sense of belonging and state of mind that people have, including shared characteristics such as beliefs, language, religion, traditions, cultures, and customs.
What is a nation?
These are commitments people have toward the nation they belong to or identify with.
What are nationalist loyalties?
These loyalties are not embedded in the idea of a nation.
What are non-nationalist loyalties?
These two major alliances formed before World War I shaped the war’s sides.
What are the Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente?
Ultranationalism often develops in response to this kind of major national crisis, like war or economic collapse.
What is a crisis (such as war, terrorism, or economic collapse)?
Nationalism is the feeling of pride and loyalty toward one’s nation, while this is the demonstration of that pride and loyalty.
What is patriotism?
This Canadian memorial route symbolizes nationalist loyalty by honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
What is the Highway of Heroes?
During the 1932 Edmonton demonstration, this group represented a non-nationalist loyalty.
What is the working class?
This battle is considered a defining moment for Canadian national identity during WWI.
What is the Battle of Vimy Ridge?
This term describes extreme loyalty and pride in one’s nation.
What is extreme patriotism?
This type of nation is based largely on a common ethnicity and ethnic heritage.
What is an ethnic nation?
This Canadian policy adapts public institutions to the religious or cultural practices of minorities.
What is reasonable accommodation?
In the Sunni/Shia conflict, this group organized to create ISIS.
What are Shia Muslims?
This treaty ended WWI and imposed harsh penalties on Germany, including reparations and military restrictions.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Ultranationalists use propaganda to glorify national identity and create hatred toward these people.
Who are perceived enemies?
This can inspire nationalism by creating a sense of belonging and identity through shared natural features, such as mountains in Tibet or Peru.
What is geography?
Canada has tried to reconcile nationalist loyalties by promoting these two ideas.
What are multiculturalism and bilingualism?
lberta lost billions in revenue and tens of thousands of jobs because of this Trudeau-era policy.
What is the National Energy Program?
Woodrow Wilson proposed these points, including reducing militaries and creating an international peace organization.
What are Wilson’s 14 Points?
Ultranationalists commonly divide people into these two categories.
Who are “us” and “them”?
This type of nation is based on people agreeing to shared laws and values regardless of religion, language, or culture (like Canada).
What is a civic nation?
Canadian government assimilation efforts caused this impact on Inuit identity, including loss of traditional names and cultural practices.
What is the loss of traditional names and cultural practices (and/or loss of Inuit cultural identity)?
Michaëlle Jean avoided conflicting loyalties by doing this when she became Governor General of Canada.
What is renouncing her French citizenship?
These conferences redrew borders after WWI and helped dissolve empires like the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian.
What are the Paris Peace Conferences?
Japan’s invasion of Manchuria (1931) and Germany’s invasion of Poland (1939) are examples of this ultranationalist action.
What is aggressive military expansion to gain territory/resources?