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WW1 Battle Of Ypres.
Ypres is a small Belgian town. The first battle on Ypres started on October 19th, 1914. The Canadian and French-Algerian forces held a bulge in the allied line that lead the German army surrounded on three sides. In April 1915, a German technician opened valves on 5730 canisters of chlorine gas, letting out 160 tonsWith this, more than 250,000 allied soldiers were killed. Canadian troops were the only succsessful counter attacks at Ypres, and only forced to hold their position after being gassed -
Person Case Gives Women Same Rights As Men
The five Alberta women, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Emily Murphy, and Irene parlby all represented in levels of Canadian politics. They started the petition for women to have equal rights. The petition started in Alberta on October 18th 1929, and had almost 500,000 Canadians sign. Borden was willing to agree to the petition but couldn't behalf of a rule made in 1876 that women can not be eligible for rights and privileges, but can be for eligible for pains and penalt -
Canada Joins NATO.
NATO stands for national Atlantic treaty organization. The treaty was signed in Washington DC, in 1949. The treaty was designed to promote the stability of the North Atlantic area and to safeguard the freedom of its people. The Canadian armed forces are among the most engaged, agile, deplorable, and responsive armed forces within nato. Canada was not only a member, but one of the funding countries. -
The Cold War 1950s- 1990s
The Cold War was a war of threats words and propaganda between the west and the east. It was called a Cold War because fighting never actually occurred directly between two main powers. Only "hot wars" we're small wars in which two sides revived help from the U.S. or Soviet Union. -
Stock market crash
During the stock market crash, 160,000 shares were traded. It was known to be the most devastating crash in history. People were loosing their jobs, and rumours had it that people were committing suicide. Charles E Mitchell said he'd provide $25 million dollars in credit to stop slide. This was signalled as the beginning of the Great Depression. They suffered a mini crash on March 25th. On Black Thursday there was 12.9 million shares sold. 4 days after Black Thursday, the stock market fell again -
Pearl Harbor attack
Second Japanese war, imperial Japan invaded China to gain territory, strong American trade ties to China sonce WW1. They felt the need to expand to survive. Colonies in Asia weakened. The surprise attack happened at 6:00 am when people wouldn't expect it. The Americans cut off the oil supply. At 12:14 the. SXT day the Japanese headed home. U ships sank, 2 beached, 3 badly damaged. There were 2335 service men killed.