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Battle of Ypres
The battle of Ypres was during the first world war. In the area of Belgian city of Ypres. Where the German and the allied clashed. -
Victory Bond
The Canadian government sold victory bonds to Canadian citizens. The bonds were a loan that could be redeemed with interest. A hundred million dollars of victory bonds was quickly purchased. -
Winnipeg General Strike
Winnipeg General strike was one of the most famous strike in Canadian History. Leaders complained that many Winnipeg companies had enormous profits. Their goal was to mobilize workers. -
Lord' Day Act
When Canada is acquired by Britain. English laws prohibiting work and entertainment on Sunday. The effect ended in 1920's. -
Inflation
After the world war one the Germany is in debt. Their solution is to print money. The money is worthless in Germany before. -
Flappers
A young western women who short skirts, bobbed hair, and listen to jazz. Flappers were seen as an arrogant for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manners, smoking, and driving automobiles. Flappers had their origins in their liberal periods of the roaring twenties. -
Prohibition
Many women got involved in politics in Canada because of Alcohol. The WCTU had thousands of members across Canada. For various reasons, prohibition of alcohol made sense during wartime. -
Multiplier Effect
A problem faced by the western farmers. Many farmers could not send their wheat to the market, workers on the railroads lost their job. Because workers didn't have money, they could not buy new clothes or vacuum cleaners; therefore, the workers who produced new clothes or vacuum cleaners lost their jobs. -
Rum Running
An illegal business of smuggling alcoholic beverages across the border of Canada. Canadian entrepreneurs didn't wait for the end of prohibition in Canada. They get into business of selling liquor to organized crime in the United States. -
ON-TO-OTTAWA TREK
A journey where thousands of unemployed men scattered across western Canada. This men lived and worked in these camps at a rate of twenty cents per day. Hundreds of men began boarding boxcars headed east become know as the on-to-Ottawa Trek -
Krystallnacth
Krystallnacth also referred to the night of broken glass. The shards of the broken glass that littered the streets after Jewish business and stores had their smashed. Estimated 91 Jewish people were murdered during the attack -
Blitzkrieg
The Nazi war machine invaded Poland using the rapid method of attack called Blitzkrieg or lightning war. The Soviet Union Attacked Poland from the east. Hitler and Stalin deafeted Poland and occupied the country. -
X Camp
Most of the Jewish people were moved to the death camps by freight trains. In the camps, some inmates were selected to be used as a slaved labour. The biggest death camp was Auschwitz located in Poland. -
Genocide
The Nazi leadership decided on a final solution for captured Jewish, gypsies, and homosexuals. This solution was to exterminate the Jewish people in death camps. The planned killing of an entire race of people is called genocide. -
Zyklon B
A poisonous gas that interferes with cellular respiration. It is used by Nazi Germany during the holocaust to murder a million people in gas chambers. It is used by a German as a chemical weapon during world war 1. -
Japanese Canadians
The Canadian government decided to forcibly remove 23,000 Japanese Canadians living along the coastline of British Columbia. This action was taken under the war measures act to protect the security of Canada. No Japanese Canadian was ever charged with any act of sabotage or disloyalty to Canada. -
The Turning Point
The allies met heavy resistance from the occupying German forces in Italy. In the town of Ortona, the Canadian forces fought the Nazi enemy in the streets and houses for one month. 650 Canadian soldiers killed and wounded, victory was achieved at Ortona. -
D-day
D-day was the code name for the day when the allies started their massive invasion. 130,000 Canadian, American, and British troops went ashore at Normandy, France. This mission was a surprise and was well organized. -
United Nations
United Nations is created in the spring in 1945 during the last days of the war. This organization replaced league of nations, which had failed to prevent the outbreak of world war two. It soon expanded its activities to developing countries where children were in need of assistance. -
End of war in the Pacific area
The U.S. decided to use a powerful weapon the atomic bomb. An atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. A second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan finally surrendered. -
NATO and NORAD
U.S. and Canada formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). The intention was to combat Soviet aggression. Later Canada and U.S. formed the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD). -
High Arctic Exiles
The Canadian Government looked to the north and saw uninhabited island. They feared that the Soviets or the Americans would try to claim this land for themselves. To solve this problem the government rounded up some Inuit familiesand relocate them up north. -
Suez Crisis
A conflict between Egypt and Great Britain, France and Israel. Britain and France wants Suez Canal opened because they pay large amount of money and Egypt blocks it. Lester B. Pearson suggest the United Nations and they solved the conflict and he received the Novel Peace Prize. -
Avro Arrow
Avro Arrow was the fastest jet made by Canadians. Later the government scrapped all planes because of large expense. After that the people who is involved doing this project ended up in America. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Americans entered into a state of prolonged conflict with Cuba, Cutting all economic and diplomatic ties. The Soviet Union was transporting Ballistic Missiles to Cuba. The crisis was resolved when the Soviet missiles base was dismantled. -
Quebec Referendum
Some people wants Quebec to be an independent country. in 1973 its the Quebec election. The results are 30% for the one who wants the Quebec to be an Independent country and 50% for the one who wants to stay in Canada