GO1: Nationalism and Identity
Religion, ethnicity, language and shared region are just a few examples of things that can help you connect to this.
What is a Nation?
The assassination of this member of the Austrian royal family is known as the event that sparked World War I.
Who is Archduke Franz Fedinand?
This international organization took a lot of inspiration from the League of Nations as a way to promote collective security across the world.
What is the United Nations?
What are Referendums?
This ideology is based on the premise that an individual’s loyalty and devotion to the nation-state surpass other individual or group interests.
What is Nationalism?
This was the class system in France during the Ancien Regime.
What is the Three Estates.
This German Prime Minister once famously told his Parliament, "It is not by means of speeches and resolutions that the great issues of the day will be decided... but by blood and iron."
Who is Otto von Bismark?
This is a plan of action that guides a government's decisions about its official relations with other countries.
What is a Foreign Policy?
This act was passed in 1969 as a way to create equal standing for English and French in Canada.
What is the Official Languages Act?
This GO4 term is the power of a state to govern itself and its subjects or citizens.
What is Sovereignty?
This is a love of one's country and an interest in its wellbeing.
What is Patriotism?
This meeting was held in 1815, when the four major powers of Europe at the time looked to reestablish legitimism as a way to determine the right to rule in opposed to nationalism.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom, and the USA make up this group of the United Nations.
What is the Security Council?
The Oka Crisis, when the Indigenous community and Quebecois contested over a plot of land is an example of this for Canadians.
What are Contending Loyalties?
This GO2 term is a foreign policy of pacifying an aggrieved country through negotiation to prevent war.
What is Appeasement?
Baltej Singh Dhillon being permitted to wear a turban as part of his RCMP uniform is an example of this.
What is Reasonable Accommodation?
Former Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden enforced conscription on Canadians during World War I by passing this act.
What is the Military Service Act?
Tariffs, boycotts, sanctions, loans, and foreign aid are all examples of this, among many others.
What are Economic Actions?
The establishment of this territory on April 1, 1999, allowed for the self-determination of the Inuit population of Canada.
What is Nunavut?
This GO1 term is the process by which a group of people, usually possessing a certain degree of national consciousness, form their own state and choose their government.
What is Self-determination?
A loss in this major battle in England was the final nail in the coffin, putting an end to Napoleon's reign as emperor of France.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
Italy's invasion of Abyssinia, the Hutus' genocide of the Tutsis, and Canada's internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II are all examples of this.
What is Ultranationalism?
This is a severe deprivation of food, drinking water, sanitation, health, shelter, and education.
What is Absolute Poverty?
This Minister of the Interior for Canada could be seen as the first step of Canada's multiculturalism do to his willingness to allow non-English speaking settlers into the country.
Who is Clifford Sifton?
This GO3 term involves countries working together by ceding a degree of sovereignty to be a member of an international organization.
What is Supranationalism?