World War One
This country's declaration of war on Germany automatically entered Canada into the war.
What is Great Britain?
This major historical event had soldiers moving around the globe, spreading the Spanish Flu internationally.
What is World War One?
This group formed during World War One was the first Black battalion in Canadian military history.
What is the No. 2 Construction Battalion?
This term which was used to refer to the period described the energy of exuberance and change.
What is 'The Roaring Twenties'?
This group of people entered the workforce for the first time during WWI.
Who are women?
The M.A.I.N. causes of World War One.
What is Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism?
This violent clash between Winnipeg strikers and the North West Mounted Police effectively ended the Winnipeg General Strike.
What is Bloody Saturday?
These institutions, adminsitered by the Canadian government and churches, were meant to assimilate Indigenous children into Canadian society.
What are residential schools?
This process of people moving into city centers was caused by the growth of available industrial jobs.
What is urbanization?
This government program, meant to conserve food for soldiers overseas, was only legally enforced during the late stages of the war.
This battle was the first time chlorine gas was used in military combat.
What is the Battle of Ypres?
These two things were the original aims of the Winnipeg General Strike.
What are fair wages and the right to collective bargaining?
Africville was an African Nova Scotian village/neighbourhood in this Canadian city
Some conservative women's rights activists did not approve of this more progressive group of young women who emerged in the 1920's.
Who are flapper women?
This agricultural program allowed young men and boys to skip their spring exams to help with food production during the war.
What is Soldiers of the Soil?
This country believed that a lighter treatment of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles would lead to more sustainable peace.
Who are the United States of America?
This feature of the Spanish Flu disease made it especially devastating to Canada in the wake of World War One.
What is a high mortality rate amongst young healthy adults?
This group formed by an Indigenous veteran fought for the rights of Indigenous people through legal advocacy.
What is the League of Indians of Canada?
change in demand for this resource from the Prairies after the war lead to an economic downturn and the creation of the Progressive Party.
This word, used to describe both bonds and gardens, was a common propagandistic term during the war
what is 'victory'?
This tactic, first initiated at the Battle of the Somme, was refined by the Canadian military and played a key role in their victory at the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
What is the 'creeping barrage'?
This group of prominent businessmen and political leaders used their influence to portray the Winnipeg General Strike as a violent revolution.
Who are the Citizens Committee of 1000?
These groups of the Africans arrived in Nova Scotia through support for the British military in the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812.
Who are the Black Loyalists and/or the Black Refugees?
This sport was played in a stadium on Toronto Island during the 1920's, by the then Toronto Maple Leafs.
What is baseball?
This law, later invoked by Pierre Elliot Trudeau in 1970, enforced the imprisonment of hundreds of Eastern European 'enemy aliens' in internment camps during the war.
What is the War Measures Act?