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Canada declared war on Germany
Canada was involved in the war between british and france because when Great Britain declared war on Germany, Canada was automatically called upon to fight on behalf of britian. -
Battle of Ypres
The battle of ypres was the First World War battle fought for the strategic town of Ypres in western Belgium. Ypres battle was the British desire to secure the English Channel ports and the British Army's supply lines. -
Robert Borden Introduce conscription
Conscription was a political and military crisis in Canada during World War I. Canada was in desperate and needed more soldiers to go to war , there were very few volunteers to replace them. Many French Canadians opposed conscription. -
RAF Formed
In world war 1 the RAF role was to shoot down other planes and dropped bombs and spikes on enemy trenches. The Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were join to form the Royal Air Force. -
Treaty of Versailles
This when world war 1 had end, It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. Germany was to be made to pay for the damage world war one had caused. -
RCAF
Royal Canadian Air Force was the air force, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) was the air force of Canada from 1924 until 1968. The Canadian Air Force had join with the Royal Air Force in England during the First World War(WW1). -
The famous five fought women's rights.
Women's were not allowed to vote untill in 1927 when Prime Minister MacKenzie King to ask the Canadian Supreme Court to clarify the word "persons" under the British North America Act of 1867. The Famous 5 had worked together to try to improve conditions for women. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday was the beginning of the Great Depression, this is when the stock market had crashed and the economy had felled. The market did not recover from the lows of 1929 until 1954, long after WWII, 25 years later. -
Prime Minister R.B. Bennett
Richard Bedford Bennett was Prime Minister of Canada from August 7th, 1930, October 23, 1935. He served during the worst of the Great Depression years. R.B. Bennett had run a one-man government. -
Five Cent Speech
The 5 cent speech was delivered to the Canadian in the late 1920's. When king said he wouldn't give even a nickel to someone that lost there job. and for people asking for relief payments. This happened during the beginning of the Great Depression. Five-cent piece speech was delivered by Mackenzie King. -
Ottawa Trek
1935, a social movement or unemployed men protesting about conditions in federal relief camps across Western Canada. Prime Minister R.B Bennet were not enough to deal with people's major economic problems. Dozens of protestors were injured and few police officer was killed. -
Battle of The Alantic
The battle of the atlantic was the longest war. Canada's role in the Battle of the Atlantic was to protect supply convoys from Northern America to Russia. Canada sent out convoys to Britain but when hitler found out he started to destroy the supplies. -
Battle of Dieppe
The Battle of Dieppe was a disaster for the Canadians. Nearly 1000 Canadians died and nearly 2000 were taken prisoner. The Germans were defending Dieppe on the coast of france. Canada had played the key role in operation. The raid on Dieppe had gived the Allies a chance to test techniques and equipment for landing troops from the sea. -
D-DAY
D-day is when the Allied troops fought with Nazi Germany. More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded. -
Liberation of Netherland
117,000 German troops surrendered in the Netherlands to Canadian soldiers. The nation was liberated by canadian troops, with the assistance of the British and American Armies. Canadian Forces played an important role in liberating the Netherlands. -
Canada Joins NATO
NATO- North Atlantic Treaty Organization,a military alliance consisting of the United States, Canada, and 14 other Western countries. NATO is often involved in peacekeeping missions. NATO was set up largely to discourage an attack by the Soviet Union on the non-Communist nations of Western Europe. Canada joined for the same reason. -
Creation of N.O.R.A.D
The North American Air Defence Agreement was created becuase the North American Countries. N.O.R.A.D is an organization which is responsible for promoting the safety and sovereignty of North America. America and Canada feared future nuclear attacks against them. The NORAD created many missile defence systems across Canada to detect possible bombings from the Soviet. -
FLQ
The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ; English: Quebec Liberation Front) was a left-wing nationalist and socialist paramilitary group in Quebec, Canada, active between 1963 and 1970, which is regarded as a terrorist organization. the overthrow of the Quebec government, The independence of Quebec from Canada and the establishment of a French-speaking Quebecer workers' society. -
Canada was invited to join the G7
In 1975, the leaders of France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain and the United States - the world's wealthiest democracies - met to discuss issues of global concern, The following year, Canada joined the grounp, and the group's name was changed to the G7. -
Constitution Act
This was the first act of Constitution that Canada used that was seerate from the old British one. Canada had founded upon the principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law. The act include the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. -
N.A.F.T.A
Canada, United States and Mexico launched the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and formed the world's largest free trade area. Canada, the United States and Mexico launched the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and formed the world's largest free trade area. -
Free Trade
The Conservatives passed a law of free trade so that Canadians' economy is much, much closer to the Amercians. Which ultimately made international people think that North Americans are just 'Amercians' never Canadians and Americans. Canada's population wasn't large enough to support strong economic growth, prosperity was to be found in the export of goods and services to the United States, which was a much larger market. -
Quebec Referendun
The 1980 Quebec referendum was the first referendum in Quebec on the place of Quebec within Canada and the motion to decide whether Quebec should secede from Canada was defeated by a very narrow margin of 49.42% "Yes" to 50.58% "No". -
Canada Sends troops to Afganistan
Canada did not have a significant role in the first few months of the invasion of Afghanistan that began on October 7, 2001.The first contingents of regular Canadian troops arrived in Afghanistan only in January–February 2002.
