world war 1, etc

Question 1

How many people immigrated to from 1867 to 1914

Answer 1

3.5 milllion people immigrated during that time

Question 2

What was the Holocaust?

Answer 2

The holocaust is the name we give to the murder of more than 6 million jews, as well as more than 5 million from other minority groups.

Question 3

What’s the difference between immigrate and emigrate?

Answer 3

Immigrate is when move into a country to live Emigrate means to leave a country to live in another
There are push and pull factors. Push makes you leave, Pull brings you in.

Question 4

What is The Homestead Act?

Answer 4

The homestead act is an act that gave property to early settlers to be developed into farms.

Question 5

What are treaties?

Answer 5

A treaty is a formal, legally binding written agreement between actors in international law.

Question 6

Who fought in world war two ?

Answer 6

Italy , Germany and Japan - axis
U.K., France, Canada, Australia, China, later Soviet Union (Russia), later U.S.

Question 7

When did the Winnipeg General Strike start?

Answer 7

May 15, 1919

Question 8

When did the Winnipeg General Strike end?

Answer 8

June 25, 1919

Question 9

What was the main reason to strike?

Answer 9

The workers had low wages and poor working conditions.

Question 10

What was the goal of the indian act

Answer 10

The Indian Act was created to control and assimilate Indigenous peoples and their communities.

Question 11

What is the halifax disaster?

Answer 11

Two boats the Norwegian vessel SS Imo boat and SS Monte Blac collided. The boat SS Mont Blanc had been carrying explosives which caused a massive explosion creating destruction and deaths, on 6 December 1917.

Question 12

What is the dust bowl and why important - this question was what mr martin wrote on board

Answer 12

it was a big cloud of dust
you had to take shelter
it destroyed farms
raised prices of food
contributed to depression -

Question 13

What insects were attracted during the dust bowl of 1930’s?

Answer 13

Grasshoppers

Question 14

when signed the treaty 1

Answer 14

1871,

Question 15

When did Women get to vote in Manitoba?

Answer 15

1916

Question 16

Which Japanese cities were targeted by Atomic bombs?

Answer 16

Hiroshima, August 6th, 1945 and Nagasaki, August 9th, 1945.

Question 17

What happened at Dunkirk?

Answer 17

involved the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940.

Question 18

When did the great depression start and end

Answer 18

1929-1939

Question 19

What were Japanese Internment Camps?

Answer 19

it was the policy of the government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps.

Question 20

What caused The Dust Bowl- how did it contribute to the Economic Depression?

Answer 20

a series of droughts combined with non-sustainable agricultural practices led to devastating dust storms, famine, diseases and deaths related to breathing dust.

Question 21

When did the Great Depression take place?

Answer 21

1929-1939

Question 22

What were the Central powers?

Answer 22

Central powers, Germany, Austria-hungary, Ottoman Empire

Question 23

What were the Allied Forces?

Answer 23

Allied Powers: UK, France, Italy, Russia, Canada, Australia (later U.S.)

Question 24

What happened at Vimy Ridge? When was it? Why was it an important battle?

Answer 24

Its capture by the Canadians was essential to the advances by the British Third Army to the south and of exceptional importance to checking the German attacks in the area in 1918.