Canada: 1914-1929

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  1. 3. Under the Wartime Elections Act, these objectors were prevented from voting.
  2. 4. This tax-- introduced in 1917-- was supposed to be temporary, but it still remains today.
  3. 6. Surname of Canada’s Prime Minister during the Great War.
  4. 8. “War became a kind of _____ because of the machine gun.”
  5. 11. Canada refused to have Britain co-sign this treaty.
  6. 12. “This battle is sometimes called the bloodiest battle in human history.”
  7. 17. Goal of the Indian Act
  8. 18. At the beginning of the war, airplanes were used mainly for these missions.
  9. 21. At this Ridge, four Canadian divisions fought together for the first time.
  10. 22. This Canadian rifle jammed in the heat of battle.
  11. 23. A First Nations woman lost this when she married a person who was not a status Indian.
  12. 25. In 1916, Black Canadians were given this non-combat role.
  13. 26. According to this report, Britain should no longer make laws for its former colonies.
  14. 31. The first full length film documentary was criticized for its representation of these people.
  15. 35. Under the War Measures Act, the rights of enemy aliens were restricted and some were forced into these camps.
  16. 37. Reparations: Germany was forced “to pay for the cost of the war and _______ those countries that had been severely damaged.”
  17. 40. In 1927, the Old Age Pension Act was passed; this gave some people over the age of 70 a maximum of $20 a month, but recent immigrants and status _____ did not qualify.
  18. 42. Surname of the Canadian surgeon who wrote “In Flanders Fields.”
  19. 43. This Canadian from Alliston, Ontario, won a Nobel Prize for medicine for developing insulin to treat diabetes.
  20. 45. These bonds were sold to raise money/finance the war effort.
  21. 47. Propaganda was used to encourage this feeling among Canadians.
  22. 48. This crisis was responsible for some women getting the vote at the federal level.
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  1. 1. “No law prevented employers from using hiring practices that ____ against people such as Jews and Ukrainians, and some immigrants resorted to hiding their origins by changing their names to sound more British.”
  2. 2. The effect of residential school policies are equivalent to “cultural _______.”
  3. 5. Art—including that of Emily Carr and the Group of ______-- assisted in creating a unique Canadian identity.
  4. 6. Top Allied flying ace from Ontario: Billy ______.
  5. 7. In 1929, the British Privy Council overturned this Canadian court ruling that said women were not “persons” under the law.
  6. 9. Machine guns could shoot 600 rounds of ____ a minute.”
  7. 10. First female appointed to the Senate of Canada: Cairine ____.
  8. 13. Location where the peace treaty was signed.
  9. 14. First Nations people were prohibited from hiring these to assist in negotiating treaties.
  10. 15. Also known as the Third Battles of Ypres, this muddy battle “has come to symbolize the futility of war.”
  11. 16. The occupation of the first women to serve in the Canadian Armed Forces.
  12. 19. Films were ____ until 1927
  13. 20. This affair became an important step in Canada’s autonomy when Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King refused to automatically send troops to support Britain in Turkey.
  14. 24. Surname of the Canadian commander who was responsible for the victory at Vimy Ridge.
  15. 27. This agreement marked the official end of the Great War.
  16. 28. In residential schools, Aboriginal spirituality was ______.
  17. 29. This Immigration Act, passed in 1923, prevented these men from bring their wives and children to Canada
  18. 30. Prior to World War I, this country had largest navy in the world.
  19. 32. Germans unleashed a deadly new weapons—chlorine gas—on this battlefield.
  20. 33. These German vessels were used to destroy the Triple Alliance’s supply ships.
  21. 34. Under the Indian Act, First Nations people were not allowed to participate in these unless they gave up their status.
  22. 36. Prior to the 1920s, this was Canada’s main trading partner.
  23. 38. Undermining Canadian autonomy, Governor General Julian Byng refused to dissolve parliament and call this.
  24. 39. Location of the assassination that ignited World War I.
  25. 41. Location of the explosion that killed 2,000 and injured 9,000.
  26. 44. These people “were nearly unanimous” in opposing the Military Service Act of 1917.
  27. 46. War guilt clause: This term forced Germany to accept _____ for ‘causing all the loss and damage’ of the war.