Canadian History

Question 1

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 1

The treaty versailles is the treaty signed by all country’s involved in the war. The treaty was the peace treaty that ended the war. The treaty forced the germans to pay for the damages of war. They had to de militarize the Rhine land as well as limit their army to 100000 soldiers or less

Question 2

Group of Seven

Answer 2

Seven famous canadian landscape painters who disbanded in 1933 due to lack of government funding

Question 3

Fredrick banting

Answer 3

Inventor of insulin. He sold the patterns for 1 dollar

Question 4

The allies

Answer 4

The ww2 alliance between Britain The Soviet Union and USA

Question 5

Buying on margin

Answer 5

The act of buying items with a loan. Mainly used to buy stocks through stock brokers. They will buy stock with 40000 dollars but 36000 was loaned to them to buy back later

Question 6

Black Tuesday

Answer 6

The day that the stock market crashed. It crashed October 29 1929

Question 7

The axis

Answer 7

The axis powers was the alliance between nazi Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 8

The great depression

Answer 8

The decade long period of extreme poverty that happens after the stock market crash. This time was ended when ww2 started due to the switch to war time economy. The worst of the depression was in 1933

Question 9

The famous 5

Answer 9

5 Canadian women who played a huge role in pushing for women’s rights.

Question 10

Franz Ferdinand

Answer 10

The Arch-Duke of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. His assasination on June 28 1914 was one of the causes of WW1.

Question 11

Billy Bishop

Answer 11

A Canadian ace pilot. He served in both world wars and was officially awarded with 72 victories.

Question 12

Blitzkrieg attack

Answer 12

The blitzkrieg attack was the German attack strategy that they used from 1939 to 1942. The attack consorted of a 3 stages. The first stage was a feed of five bombings then stage two was right after the the bombing the tanks where sent then finally stage 3 the infantry was sent in right after the tanks.

Question 13

The on to Ottawa trek

Answer 13

The on to Ottawa trek was when 3000 Relief Camp workers Hoped on trains in Vancouver and rode them until they were stopped in Regina Saskatchewan, which started the Regina riots.

Question 14

Regina Riots

Answer 14

The Regina riots started when the RCMP stopped the trek in Regina Saskatchewan. The police tried to stop the trekkers protest on June 6 and it resulted into a riot that only calmed down the next morning after the police sprayed a hail of bullets into the crowd. The result of the riot was 2 dead 100’s injured and 1000’s of dollars in damages.

Question 15

The Dieppe Raid and the Lessons

Answer 15

The Dieppe raid was a absolute disaster, but it held multiple lessons to be learned. The first lesson was that the Nazis could absolutely not know about the next raid whats soever or its game over. The next one was wait until the soldiers take the beach before sending in more, don’t waste any men due to lack of communication.

Question 16

Imperialism

Answer 16

a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force.

Question 17

Communism

Answer 17

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 18

Sam Hughes

Answer 18

He is a General in the Canadian army. He pros are that he didn’t segregate the Canadian regiments by color and he didn’t allow the British to put the Canadians soldiers into the British regiments. His cons are that he wasted a lot of money on terrible weapons that couldn’t be fired if dirty and also on shovel shields that didn’t work.

Question 19

Isolationist

Answer 19

a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 20

Lend-Lease agreement

Answer 20

The lend lease agreement was the agreement that the British government came up with the Americans that had the american equipment and weapons being lent out to the Russians to help support the war effort.

Question 21

Ypres

Answer 21

In the First Battle of Ypres (19 October to 22 November 1914), the Allies captured the town from the Germans. Their use of poison gas for the first time on 22 April 1915 marked the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres, which continued until 25 May 1915. They captured high ground east of the town.

Question 22

Vimy Ridge

Answer 22

Vimy Ridge was he first all Canadian offence to take a crucial piece of high ground from the Germans. The battle started on April 9 and ended on April 12 of 1917. The Canadians used a Creeping barrage of over 1 million artillery shells and also used under ground tunnels to infiltrate the ridge.

Question 23

The Somme Offensive

Answer 23

The Battle of the Somme, also known as the Somme Offensive, took place between 1 July and 18 November 1916 on both sides of the upper reaches of the River Somme in France. This battle was the largest and bloodiest battle in the war. This was also the first battle that had the use of tanks involved.

Question 24

Victory Bonds`

Answer 24

a bond issued by a government during or immediately after a major war.

Question 25

Rationing

Answer 25

allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity)

Question 26

Conscription

Answer 26

compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
*Add the crisis that happend in WW1 and WW2

Question 27

Trade Union

Answer 27

an organized association of workers in a trade, group of trades, or profession, formed to protect and further their rights and interests; a labor union.

Question 28

Prohibition

Answer 28

the prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol, especially in the US between 1920 and 1933. In Ontario it was the LCA and it banned the consumption of alcohol only.

Question 29

The Roaring 20’s

Answer 29

A decade long period of economic boom after the first world war. This Boom ended on black Tuesday during the stock market crash which ended the boom and started the great depression.

Question 30

Tariff

Answer 30

a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports.

Question 31

Joseph Stalin

Answer 31

The Communist Leader of the USSR or the Soviet Union. He was a terrible dictator who had his own men killed if they ran away.

Question 32

The St. Louis ship

Answer 32

MS St. Louis was a German ocean liner known for carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939. Originally intending to debark in Cuba, they were denied permission to land. The captain, Gustav Schröder, went to the United States and Canada, trying to find a nation to take them in, but both refused.

Question 33

The Battle of Britain

Answer 33

The Battle of Britain was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany’s air force, the Luftwaffe. It has been described as the first major military campaign fought entirely by air forces. Was also the first major defeat that the Germans had.

Question 34

The A-Bomb and Hiroshima

Answer 34

During the final stage of World War II, the United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The United States dropped the bombs after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as required by the Quebec Agreement. The two bombings killed 129,000–226,000 people, most of whom were civilians. They remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of armed conflict.

Question 35

The BCATP and Windsor

Answer 35

The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), or Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) often referred to as simply “The Plan”, was a massive, joint military aircrew training program created by the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, during the Second World War. Windsor was one of the cites in Canada chosen to have a training facility.

Question 36

D-Day and Juno

Answer 36

Juno or Juno Beach was one of five beaches of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 during the Second World War. … The 3rd Canadian Division’s D-Day objectives were to capture Carpiquet Airfield and reach the Caen–Bayeux railway line by nightfall.

Question 37

Womens Role in the War

Answer 37

Women’s role in the wars change drastically in the world wars. The first world war women would drive ambulances or work in the hospitals. While during world war 2 Women would not fight on the front lines but were allowed to wear uniforms and work in Intel and tactic stations in the army.

Question 38

Grace MacPherson

Answer 38

Grace Macpherson was the first female ambulance driver. She went all the way out to Europe to talk to Sam Hughes who eventually let her be a driver.

Question 39

Adolf EichMann

Answer 39

Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust.

Question 40

The War in afghanistan

Answer 40

The war in afganistan was first meant to take out al cadia and remove the taliban from power. The operation offically ended in 2014 but here still remain thousands of troops there with no plans to be retrieved

Question 41

The League of nations

Answer 41

The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organisation founded on 10 January 1920 as a result of the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. It was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace.

Question 42

The Sudetenland

Answer 42

The Sudetenland is the historical German name for the northern, southern, and western areas of former Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by Sudeten Germans. These German speakers had predominated in the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and Czech Silesia from the time of the Austrian Empire.

Question 43

Globalization

Answer 43

the process by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

Question 44

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 44

Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war. it failed due to the Russian winter killing German troops and cutting off their supply line and also that the Russians were given weapons ammo and vehicles by the Americans by the lend-lease agreement.

Question 45

The Maginot line

Answer 45

The Maginot Line, named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by Germany and force them to move around the fortifications.

Question 46

The Nuremberg laws

Answer 46

The two Nuremberg Laws were unanimously passed by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans, and forbade the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households.

Question 47

The wartime measure act

Answer 47

The War Measures Act was a statute of the Parliament of Canada that provided for the declaration of war, invasion, or insurrection, and the types of emergency measures that could thereby be taken

Question 48

The battle of Hong Kong

Answer 48

The Battle of Hong Kong, also known as the Defence of Hong Kong and the Fall of Hong Kong, was one of the first battles of the Pacific War in World War II. On the same morning as the attack on Pearl Harbor, forces of the Empire of Japan attacked the British Crown colony of Hong Kong.

Question 49

Hyper-inflation in Germany

Answer 49

By fall 1922, Germany found itself unable to make reparations payments. … Inflation was exacerbated when workers in the Ruhr went on a general strike and the German government printed more money to continue paying for their passive resistance. By November 1923, the US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 German marks.

Question 50

David Suzuki during ww2

Answer 50

David Suzuki was a Japanese Canadian who was sent to a enemy alien camp in Canada. After he got out he had not hate or resentment and went on a journey to try to end discrimination in Canada.

Question 51

Canadian invasion of Italy WW2

Answer 51

Canadians in Italy. One result of the Allied invasion of Sicily was the overthrow of the Italian dictator, Mussolini. However, although the new Italian Government surrendered on September 3, 1943, the Germans seized control and it was German troops that the Allies faced in their advance up the Italian peninsula.

Question 52

Nellie McClung

Answer 52

Nellie Letitia McClung (born Helen Letitia Mooney; 20 October 1873 – 1 September 1951), was a Canadian suffragette, politician, author, and social activist. She was a part of the social and moral reform movements prevalent in Western Canada in the early 1900s. In 1927, McClung and four other women: Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby, who together came to be known as “The Famous Five” (also called “The Valiant Five”),[2] launched the “Persons Case,” contending that women could be “qualified persons” eligible to sit in the Senate. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the current law did not recognize women as such. However, the case was won upon appeal to the Judicial Committee of the British Privy Council—the court of last resort for Canada at that time.

Question 53

The Schlieffen plan

Answer 53

The Schlieffen Plan was the operational plan for a designated attack on France once Russia, in response to international tension, had started to mobilise her forces near the German border. The execution of the Schlieffen Plan led to Britain declaring war on Germany on August 4th, 1914.

Question 54

The enabling act

Answer 54

The enabling act was the law the was passed in 1933 which gave Hitler complete power to pass laws with out needing a vote.

Question 55

Winston Churchhill

Answer 55

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD DL FRS RA was a British politician, army officer, and writer, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory in Europe in the Second World War.

Question 56

Residential schools

Answer 56

(in Canada) a government-supported boarding school for children from Inuit and other indigenous communities.

Question 57

The Nuremberg trials

Answer 57

The Nuremberg trials were trials held by the western countries to put captured Nazi officers and troops on a fair trial for crimes against humanity.

Question 58

Edith Cavell

Answer 58

Edith Louisa Cavell was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War, for which she was arrested.

Question 59

Oscar Schindler

Answer 59

Oscar Schindler is a Czechoslovakian business man who had a change of heart through out the war and saved around 1000 Jewish people with his factory. this costed him most of his fortune but the Schindler Jews have produced more than 10000 descendants

Question 60

NATO

Answer 60

NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an international alliance that consists of 29 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949.