Histrory

A British invasion force that beat French soldiers resulting in the British capture of Quebec. Both commanding officers were killed as a result of battle wounds.The French never recaptured Quebec and effectively lost control of New France in 1760.

After New France became a British colony of Quebec, Britain put the Quebec Act in place. This act protected French culture and allowed them to practice Roman Catholicism

Rebellions started in Upper and Lower Canada in 1837-38 against the British Crown and the current state of politics. These incidents provoked the Durham Report.

Canada become a nation on July 1st 1867

The North-West Rebellion, also known as the North-West Resistance, or Northwest Uprising, was a violent uprising in 1885 between the Canadian government and the Métis

Increased the number of people who could not enter the country and allowed the government more power in deciding which people to admit and which to deport.

The first prime minister of Canada, held office from 1867 to 1873 and again from 1878 to 1891. He was the central character of Canadian Confederation and had an almost 50-year political career.

The seventh Prime Minister of Canada, was a Canadian lawyer, diplomat, and politician who presided over the country from 1896 until 1911.

A Canadian civil and women's rights activist and entrepreneur of Black Nova Scotian origin. She refused to leave a whites-only section of the Roseland Theatre in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, in 1946, to protest racial segregation.

These laws limited Indigenous rights aimed at integrating a large and diverse population into non-Indigenous civilization by generalizing them.

A first-person or current account of an event or subject

Was produced after the fact by someone who was not present for the circumstances or experienced them firsthand.

Facts that determine what an who from the past should be remembered, researched, taught and learned

Validation, interpretation and use primary and secondary sources of historical information in the construction of historical accounts

How lives and conditions are alike over periods of time and how they changes for people and societies that came before and after

Who or what influenced history and what repercussions of these changes

The viewing of the past through the social, intellectual,emotional, and ethical lenses of the time

Assessing the past and the implications of past actions light of past present norms about the appropriate treatment of others

A specific legal identity of an Aboriginal person in Canada. With the creation of the Indian Act in 1876, the Canadian government developed criteria for who would be legally considered an Indian.

Largest all black non-combat battalion

This allowed all Canadian women who were directly related to servicemen to vote in the upcoming election. It also took away the vote from people against the war (pacifists)

Made conscription compulsory for all Canadian men between the ages of 20 and 45

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

people living in a country that is at war with their homeland

The Canadian Prime Minister during World War 1; supported Britain when they went to war

The person who was the assassin that started WWI. Assassinated the Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand.

Emperor of Germany during World War I: abdicated the throne and fled to Holland

A form of warfare in which armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

battle between German and British forces. Ending in a stalemate, notable for the high number of casualties- 1.25 million men killed or wounded - and the first use of tanks in warfare.

A worthless battle which lasted for 3 months, late in 1917. Brits were major fighting force. Advanced only 5 miles near Ypres at cost of 1/2 million men.

A battle in WW1 where poison gas was 1st used.

A successful battle of World War One where all four Canadian divisions fought together for the first time. A proud moment for Canada.

a military maneuver in which one side sets up a line of ships to block entry into or departure from the ports of the opposing side

28th president of the United States, known for WW1 , sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize

British prime minister, although he was re-elected for his popular campaign of making Germany pay for the war.

French statesman who played a key role in negotiating the Treaty of Versailles (1841-1929)

Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924).

An agreement to stop fighting

November 11, 1918

series of attacks made by canadian corps from August 8- November 11, 1918

Payment for war damages

Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.

The peace conference that decided the terms of WWI peace and Treaty of Versailles.

an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations

Pandemic that spread around the world in 1918, killing more than 50 million people

October 29, 1929 :the day the stock market crashed.

the making and selling of illegal alcohol

A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in the government

union representative negotiates with management for better work conditions, benefits, higher pay, etc.

An economic system based on private ownership of property

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production. ( free" healthcare

Where more than 30,000 workers left their jobs (see Work). Factories, shops, transit and city services shut down. The strike resulted in arrests, injuries and the deaths

An organization of workers that acts to protect workers' rights and interests

A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

A court case in which the Famous Five successfully fought to have women declared "persons" under Canadian law in 1929

Emily Murphy, Nelie McClung, Louise Mickinney, Henrietta Muir Edwards and Irene Parlby

Young women of the 1920s that behaved and dressed in a "unladylike" way

An increase in prices and a decrease in the value of money.

Government-authorized schools, run by the churches, in which Aboriginal children lived apart from their families and were educated in Canadian culture

Retreating British soldiers were trapped between the advancing Nazis and the English Channel. Rescued 300,000

Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII

Communist dictator of the Soviet Union

German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)

Fascist dictator of Italy (1922-1943)

President of the US during Great Depression and World War II

German Air Force

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator

"My Struggle"-a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany

Prejudice against Jews

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict

A secret agreement between the Germans and the Russians that said that they would not attack each other

Ideology that was based largely on racism and ultra-nationalism.

Great Britain(Canada), France, Russia, later US

Germany, Italy, Japan

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. (empires)

Sustained bombing of Britain by Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1941

A stretch of battlefield along the German and Russian border

Codename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.

Where a British-Canadian force attempted a full-scale raid but was brutally repulsed by the Germans

Canada has sent 2 battalions to defend Hong Kong from the Japanese. After 18 days of fighting and a loss on Christmas day all Canadian soldiers were either killed or taken prisoner by the Japanese.

Led by Eisenhower, over a million troops (the largest invasion force in history) stormed the beaches at Normandy and began the process of re-taking France. The turning point of World War II.

Canadian landing beach during the Normandy invasion. Canadians penetrated about 9 km inland by the end of D-Day.

Victory in Europe Day- marking the surrender of Hitler

After D-Day, canadian forces drove the NAZIS to retreat from Holland.

A 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of World War II.

A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled.

The Japanese bombing of the U.S. naval base in Hawaii

Emperor of Japan during WWII

Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.

Two Japanese cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs to end World War II.

The Victory in Japan Day when the Japanese surrendered

The President who presided over the end of World War II (ordered droppings of atomic bombs)

He was the Prime Minister at the end of the depression and during the Second World War.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries