Canada 1914-2000

By holygrail
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    Robert Borden

    Prime minister of Canada

  • WW1

  • Ypres, Belgium

    Canadian troops exposed to poisonous gas

  • Battle of Somme

    24000 Canadians casualties and 85% of Newfoundland regiment killed in half hour

  • Vimy Ridge

    Canadians part of victory at Vimy Ridge a Canadian Milestone

  • Passchendaele

    Allies won the battle but it cost 15 000 canadian lives and half a million soldiers on both sides

  • Halifax Disaster

    Mont Blanc a french ship loaded with dynamite accidentally hit by another ship destroyed most of Halifax and killed thousands
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    Spanish Flu

    50 000 Canadians die from theis flu

  • WW1 ends

  • Treaty of Versailles

  • Winnipeg General Strike

    Gave voice to post war dissatisfaction

  • League of Nations

  • Arthur Meighen Prime minister

  • Agnes Macphail

    first women elected to house of commons
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    William Mackenzie King

    Prime minister
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    roaring 20's

    time of prosperity

  • King Byng crisis

    a censure vote against king would cause him to resign so he tried to have governor general byng call a new election. he refused

  • Persons case

    case that made women persons by law

  • The stock market crash

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    Depression

  • R.B. Bennett prime minister

  • Balfour report

    recommendations in balfour report became law. gave canada more autonomy

  • CCF started

  • highest unemployment

  • Mackenzie King elected prime minister

  • hitler invades poland

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    WW2

  • evacuation of dunkirk

    hundreds of boats from britain evacuate 340 000 ally soldiers

  • battle of britain

    germany begins air raidsover england

  • pearl harbour

    japanese bomb pearl harbour

  • battle hong kong

  • Dieppe Raid

    Allied raid on german occupied Dieppe. Was a terrible failure

  • D Day

  • first nuclear bomb

  • United nations forms

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    Cold war

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    Louis St. Laurent Prime Minister

  • NATO forms

  • Newfoundland becomes province

  • Korean War begins

  • CBC broadcast first TV show

  • Warsaw Pact forms

  • Suez Crisis

    Lester Pearson creates peacekeeping force to solve the problem

  • John Diefenbaker becomes prime minister

  • NORAD established

  • Quiet Revolution

  • Berlin Wall

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    Vietnam war

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

  • Lester Pearson becomes prime minister

  • Medical Care Act passed

  • Trudeau becomes prime minister

  • CRTC created

  • National Indian brotherhood formed

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    Trudeau Prime Minister

  • White Paper

  • FLQ crisis

  • National Action Committe on women

  • Multiculturism policy adopted

  • SALT 1

    reduced nuclear arsenals US and USSR

  • Canada-USSR hockey series

  • Rene Levesque wins Quebec premier

  • USSR invades Afghanistan

  • Terry Fox Run

  • Quebec referndum

  • Constitution Act

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    Brian Mulroney Prime Minister

  • Berlin Wall destroyed

  • US-Canada free trade agreement implemented

  • Meech Lake accord dies

  • OKA crisis

  • Gulf War

  • Somalia United Nations operation

  • Charlottetown Accord rejected by referndum

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    Jean Chretien Prime minister

  • Canada joins NAFTA

  • Rwanda

  • second referndum on sovereignty

  • Canada joins in NATO attacks on Yugoslavia

  • Nunavut created

  • Nisga'a Treaty given royal assent