History Exam Terms
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- Manchuria
- Just north of Korea, it was invaded by Japan during World War 2
- Vimy Ridge
- Captured by General Arthur Currie, preparation was especially rigorous for this battle
- W.L. Mackenzie King
- For almost 30 years until his death in 1950, he dominated the Liberal party and political life in Canada
- Billy Bishop
- One of the greatest fighters of the Commonealth, he shot down 72 planes during his career as a fighter pilot
- Sam Hughes
- a Canadian colonel was the minister of Militia at the beginning of World War 1, but was later fired by Prime Minister Borden because of his bad choice of guns
- Belgium Neutrality
- Germany planned to attack France through Belgium and Britain signed a treaty guaranteeing the protection of Belgium's neutrality
- Atomic Bomb
- a giant bomb which is capable of killing hundreds of thousands of people; the Americans/allies and the Germans raced to build the first one
- Robert Borden
- The Canadian Prime Minister during World War 1; supported Britain when they went to war
- Population Trend 1920's
- many Canadians continued to move into Canada's cities, many Canadians moved into communitites on the outskirts of cities called suburbs, increased demand for schools, housing, hospitals, and social services
- The Winnipeg General Strike
- wanted to improve living and working conditions, the Building and Metal Councils went on strike because they wanted three things: decent wages, 8-hour day, the right to bargain collectively for better working conditions, the strike continued for 37 days, bloody Saturday
- Pearl Harbour
- the event that caused the U.S. to join World War 2, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour
- The Charleston
- a dance that was popular in the 1920's
- Tommy Douglas
- leader of the NDP during the 1930's
- Parti Quebecois
- formed in 1968 by Rene Levesque, Levesque wanted the future of Quebec to be an independent nation, always insisted on democratic and moderate means for achieving independence
- NATO
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Bill 101
- put more restrictions on using other languages besides French in Quebec
- War Measures Act
- gave the government sweeping powers to ensure "the security, defence, peace, order, and welfare of Canada"
- Passchendaele
- after vimy Gen. Currie was knighted, fought in Belgium, gained 7km but lost it to the Germans
- Triple Alliance
- an alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy during World War 1
- Matthew Coon Come
- Grand Chief of the cree nation in Quebec
- The Quiet Revolution
- Led by Rene Levesque and John Lesage, promised to improve the economic and social standards of the people of Quebec, also promised to win greater recognition for all French-speaking people and give them greater control over their own futures
- Beaumont Hamel
- a memorial to the armed forces of Newfoundland, situated in Picardie, France
- Canada Council
- set up by two industrialists, James Dunn and Izaak Walton Killam the council administered the Governor General's awards
- Armistice
- November 11, 1918
- Sir Arthur Currie
- a Canadian General, he captured Vimy Ridge in 1917
- National Film Board
- established in 1939, its purpose was "to promote the production and distribution of films in the nation and in particular...to interpret Canada and Canadians to other countries"
- The Statute of Westminster
- Canada was made completely self-governing
- The Dieppe Raid
- The Allies planned to make a quick attack to gather crucial information and worry the Germans, but the plan backfired and numerous soldiers were killed
- Ypres
- fought in Belgium, the troops were surprised by poison gas, over 6000 men died
- Wartime Elections Act
- granted the vote to the mothers, sisters, and wives of soldiers in the Armed Forces
- Convoy System
- a way of Canada to ship large amounts of food, munitions, and other war supplies to Britain
- The Balfour Report
- Canada and the other dominions were declared self-governing and independent nations, they agreed to remain part of the Commonwealth of Nations, canada won concessions, canada would no longer talk to Britain through the Governor General
- The Suez Crisis
- President Nassar decided to take over the Suez Canal from British and French control. Israel, Britain, and France responded by attacking Egypt
- Rene Levesque
- leader of the Quiet Revolution
- Lester Pearson
- Canadian Prime Minister and former president of the General Assembly
- NORAD
- North American Air Defence Command, brought the defence of the U.S. and Canada to a joint command to protect against any nuclear attack from The Soviet Union
- the Group of Seven
- a group of artists in the 1920's who expressed Canadian life through paintings
- The St. Lawrence Seaway
- in its time, the most advanced waterway engineering project in the world, amounts of cargo shipped reached over 50 million tones each year in the late '70s, shows strong bind between Canadian and American economy
- St. Laurent
- Became Canada's Prime Minister after W.L. Mackenzie King in 1948
- Blitzkrieg
- lightning warfare
- Causes of the Great Depression
- Over-Production and Over-Expansion, dependence on the U.S., dependence on a few primary products, high tariffs choked off international trade, too much credit buying, too much credit buying of stocks
- D-Day Invasion
- the invasion of Europe via France by the U.S. and British Commonwealth to try to get at Germany
- Bill 22
- proclaimed French the official language of the civil service in Quebec
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- formerly known as the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission, it was meant to counteract the American domination of the airways and to encourage the development of Canadian programs
- John Diefenbaker
- Canada's Prime Minister starting in 1957, he refused nuclear warheads for the Bomarc missiles
- Bill 86
- allows French signs outside of business to be in French and English as long as the French language is twice as large
- R.B. Bennett
- Canada's Prime Minister during the Great Depression
- Victory Gardens
- these were created so that more food could be shipped to the soldiers and so Canadians started growing their own vegetables