Unit 2 Test

Question 1

Imperialism

Answer 1

Imperialism is maintaining or extending power over foreign nations.

Question 2

Nationalism

Answer 2

Identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations. (your country better than others)

Question 3

Militarism

Answer 3

The belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.

Question 4

Conscription

Answer 4

Compulsory enrollment of persons especially for military service : draft. During the war the armed forces were heavily dependent on conscription.

Question 5

War Measures Act

Answer 5

Gave the federal government broad powers to maintain security and order during war, invasion or insurrection.
- used three time in Canadian history. (First World War, Second World War,1970 October Crisis.)

Question 6

Battle at Ypres

Answer 6

Germans discharged nearly 180,000 kg of chlorine gas.
First World War, near Belgian city of Ypres, between German and Belgian, French, and British. During five engagements, casualties surpassed one million.

Question 7

Battle at Vimy Ridge

Answer 7

3,598 Canadians lost their lives, and 7,000 were wounded.
Ample planning helped Canadians achieve a major victory on the Western Front.

Question 8

Battle of Passchendaele

Answer 8

The Third Battle of Ypres was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against German Empire.

Question 9

Gavrilo Princip

Answer 9

Bosnian Serb student who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand & his wife.
The killing of the Archduke and his wife set off the July Crisis, a series of events that within one month led to the outbreak of World War I.

Question 10

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 10

was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary.

Question 11

Canada’s Hundred Days

Answer 11

Canadian + allies pushed Germans from Amiens, France, east to Mons, Belgium, in a series of battles. lead to German surrender and end of the war.

Question 12

Creeping Barrage

Answer 12

create line of shellfire in front of the Canadian troops then keep it moving forward like shield so soldiers move behind it, across the battlefield.

Question 13

No Man’s Land

Answer 13

the area of land between two enemy trench systems, not controlled by either side.

Question 14

Convoys

Answer 14

a group of vehicles or ships that travel together, especially for protection

Question 15

U-Boats

Answer 15

a German submarine used in WW1 + WW2.

Question 16

League of Nations

Answer 16

international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after WW1 resolving international disputes. failed after 2 decades. Economic depression, renewed nationalism, weakened successor states, feelings of humiliation (Germany) contributed to WW2.

Question 17

Sir Robert Borden

Answer 17

Eighth Canadian prime minister. leadership of Canada during WW1.

Question 18

Halifax Explosion

Answer 18

French cargo ship collided Norwegian vessel harbour of Halifax. high explosives, caught fire & exploded. The blast was the largest human-made explosion at the time.

Question 19

Enemy Aliens

Answer 19

any native, citizen, subject of any foreign nation/government with which a domestic nation or government is in conflict and who is liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed. Usually, the countries are in a state of declared war.

Question 20

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 20

most important peace treaty of WW1, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers.

Question 21

Winnipeg General Strike

Answer 21

many workers in Canada began to think that they should fight for better wages and working conditions.

Question 22

Prohibition

Answer 22

the action of forbidding something, especially by law.

Question 23

Komagata Maru

Answer 23

Japanese steamship, on which a group of people from British India attempted to immigrate to Canada, but denied entry and forced to return to Budge Budge, near Calcutta. There, the Indian Imperial Police attempted to arrest the group leaders.

Question 24

Flapper

Answer 24

Western women after WW1/ short skirts, bobbed hair, jazz, disdain for codes of decent behavior, excessive makeup, drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes in public, driving automobiles, treating sex in a casual manner, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

Question 25

Richard B. Bennett

Answer 25

11th prime minister. Bennett promised to fight vigorously to create jobs

Question 26

W. L. Mackenzie King

Answer 26

10th prime minister. leader of the Liberal party for 29 years and Prime Minister for a total of 22 years, and steered Canada through the Second World War.

Question 27

Model T Ford

Answer 27

20 versions as a matter of fact. Since the letter “T” is the 20th letter in the alphabet, Henry chose to call his first car the Model T.

Question 28

Group of Seven

Answer 28

Canadian landscape painters originally consisting of Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris , A. Y. Jackson, Frank Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H.
Canada’s first internationally recognized art movement.
united in the belief that a distinct Canadian art could be developed through direct contact with the country’s vast and unique landscape.