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1867-1871 —> 1876-1891
He was disliked for wanting to kill the Indian in the child.
Helped create the CPR/bring confederation/helped draft the BNA Act

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Sir John A MacDonald

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1896–1911
Only let white people migrate to Canada
8th in world for industrial development/protected Canadian goods my making them more expensive than domestic goods/made new railways to increase east-west trades

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Sir Wilfred Laurier

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1911-1920
Collapse of the voluntary school system
Helped secure independence from Britain

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Robert Borden

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1930-1935
The Great Depression

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R.B Bennet

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1919-1948
Longest serving PM
Lead Canada through WW2

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Makenzie King

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1957-1963
Struggled to determine if Canada should have nuclear weapons
Passed the Bill of Rights

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John Diefenbaker

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1963-1968
Received Nobel prize for helping Suez crisis/introduced student loans and universal healthcare

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Lester B Pearson

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1968-1979 —> 1980 - 1984
Legalized the gays, abortion, decreased gun violence and made the charter of rights and freedom

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Pierre Elliot Trudeau

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1984-1983
Introduced Canada-united states free trade agreement and goods and services tax

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Brian Mulroney

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1993-1993
Issues of unemployment
First women

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Kim Cambell

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1993-2003
Refused to go to war In iraq

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Jean Chrétien

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2006-2015
Forbid muslims from wearing veils that covered their whole face/made Conservative Party

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Stephan Harper

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Triple alliance ww1

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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

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Triple Entente ww1

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Britain, Russia, France

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Main causes of ww1

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The assassination of Franz Ferdinand made Austria declare war. Alliance system came into place

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What was it like for soldiers at the front ww1

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Many pests and rodents, zigzag, no man’s land had duckboards and barbed wire, super muddy

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Role of women in ww1

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Manufacturing and agriculture on the home front . Or nurse in the war

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Conscription crisis ww1

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Men didn’t want to enlist after seeing casualty rate. French – Canadian speakers, farmers, unionized workers, non-British immigrants, and other Canadians were against conscription.

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War in the air evolving, WWI

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Aircraft became larger, which allowed them to carry more explosives and drop them onto a strategic target, like factories, and dockyards

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Canada‘s most successful air, Ace, how many kills did he get credited with?

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Billy Bishop, 72

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The some

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Bloodiest battle, wanted the France defenders to have some relief by inflicting heavy German losses

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Vimy ridge

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Canada gained identity and help develop our nation

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Treaty of Versailles

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Formally ended WWI

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Tanks

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Could go through the wires and other defence mechanisms from the enemies on no man’s land, could go through trenches

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Franz Ferdinand
What is the Austria – Hungarian heir, and his assassination let the start of WWI
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Gavrilo Princip
The one who assassinated Franz Ferdinand
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The Winnipeg general strike
Store workers and transit workers went on strike because they wanted to get paid the right amount of money for the work. The outcome was people dying and getting hit and run over by RCMP.
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Flappers
Women who wore buckles on their shoes that would flap
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Prohibition
The law that made consuming or selling alcohol illegal
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Residential schools
Schools where indigenous children were made to forget their culture and language
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Women’s suffrage
The right for women to vote
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The persons’ case
Women wanted to be called persons and have all access to different jobs and other things that men are allowed to do
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Al Capone
Known as public enemy number one
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The Charleston
A type of dance, that many young men and women liked
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In the 1920s, Canada entered a period of increased urbanization. List three examples of why this happened.
1. There were more people living in the city than in the country. 2. People were moving from rural to urban areas. 3. Many jobs in stores were in urban areas.
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Why did the great depression start?
1. 1/3 of Canada’s gross income came from exports, but since the Great Depression, they were not allowed to export goods 2. On the prairies, there were many years of drought which caused crop failures. 3. Employers laid off employees, and the government aid was insufficient.
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How did the government respond to the great depression? Was it effective?
Franklin Roosevelt provided $41.7 billion in funding for the domestic programs like the work relief program for unemployed people. The government did not allow any new immigrants unless they were British, American, certain classes, immediate family, members, or an agricultural list. These things did not help the economic decline, and instead of crippled it
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Why was the great depression in Canada’s western provinces more severe than the situation in the east?
The western part of Canada rely heavily on exported goods for income, but since the Great Depression, they were not allowed to export any good, which made them suffer, incredibly
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During the great depression, there was a phrase “riding the rails,” what does it mean?
There will be people riding trains illegally to see R.B Bennett.
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What events led to Hitler’s rise in power in Germany?
There was a period of economic struggle and many Germans turned to the Nazi party since they fed on bank failures and unemployed workers
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What events led up to WW2?
In 1933 Hitler become chancellor of Germany and is ultimately the dictator. Hitler then began invading almost all of Europe
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Compare and contrast the racist policies in Canada with those in Germany during WWII
Canada had internment camps for the Japanese. Germany had concentration camps for the Jews.
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The 1950s or wirely, regarded as a time of tremendous prosperity and caught in consumerism. Provide proof of this assessment.
Unemployment remained low, and families had more spending power than before, inflation was minimal
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Sovereignty – association
Quebec people wanted to show why they should be their own country and be separated from Canada
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The quiet revolution
Rapid social, and political changes
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René Lévesque
Premier of Quebec, served as the minister of family and welfare
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Charles de Gaulle
Former president of France and soldier
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Iron curtain
A political boundary that separates two parts of Europe
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Cold War
A political war between the US and the USSR
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NATO
North Atlantic Treaty organization, A group of allied countries that protect people and their territory
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NORAD
An alert system that alerts North America about any aerospace threats
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Official languages act
Made Canada bilingual
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October crisis
Quebec tried using terrorist tactics to separate themselves from Canada
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War measures act
Maintained security, and order during war “invasion or interaction” Gave the government power to arrest anyone that deemed a threat.
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Trudeaumania
Everyone’s excitement for two does entry into the liberal party of Canada
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Meech lake
an agreement between the federal government and the provincial government to change the constitution

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