Across
- 1. An extreme form of nationalism where people are fanatically loyal to their own nation, believe in their superiority and are hostile and racist toward other nations.
- 3. During a civil war in Rwanda, the majority group of Hutus massacred approximately 800,000 of the minority group Tutsi people. Canadian General Roméo Dallaire was the commander of a small UN peacekeeper force. His calls for a larger force were ignored and this tragedy took place. This lack of action is considered to be one of the UN's greatest failures in peacekeeping.
- 5. Control over the North Pole and resources beneath the sea there. Contested between Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway.
- 8. Mandatory military service. Controversial during WWI among Quebecois in Canada who were less supportive of Canada's involvement in the war.
- 11. Heavily biased, misleading or false information and ideas that are spread through media to a population in order to achieve a specific goal such as population control, to dishonestly build support for an idea or to target another group of people. Often makes use of prejudice and discrimination.
- 17. Plan of action that guides a government's decisions about what to do within a country. May include changing federal laws, settling land claim disputes and spending tax revenues - "_____ Policy".
- 20. Armed forces who maintain peace by keeping enemies apart until a crisis can be resolved through diplomacy and negotiations.
- 21. The right of people to choose their own interests and make decisions about their own society.
- 22. Type of "camp" where thousands of eastern European and Japanese Canadians were forced to live in during World War I and II by order of the government.
- 24. A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace after WWI. It was essentially powerless, failed to stop WWII and was officially dissolved in 1946.
Down
- 2. The systematic killing and deportation of Armenians by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire during WWI - "________ Genocide".
- 4. The interest of the people of a nation. May include economic prosperity, security & safety, beliefs & values.
- 6. Stalin's deliberate punishment of people in the Ukraine for showing nationalism killing 2-7 million people from famine and starvation.
- 7. Refers to the actions by Hitler and the Nazis that brought about a genocide of Jewish people, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, the Roma, people of color and mentally and physically disabled people in Germany and the areas occupied by the Germans during WWII.
- 9. A foreign policy of trying to peacefully negotiate and compromise with a hostile power in order to avoid violent conflict.
- 10. The mass expulsion or killing of members of a targeted ethnic or religious group from an area. The attempt to eliminate an ethnic group from society.
- 12. Large-scale and systemic attacks against a group of people, including mass murder, genocide, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture & rape.
- 13. 1919 Treaty that ended World War I - most important part was that it forced Germany to accept all the blame and required them to pay war reparations as punishment.
- 14. A political movement that advocates for the independence of the province of Quebec - "Quebec ______ Movement".
- 15. Process of removing the institutions and systems imposed when an area is colonized. In Canada, it refers to repairing the damage done to Indigenous peoples by colonization.
- 16. A policy pursued under Stalin in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. The goal of this policy was to consolidate individual land and labour into state-owned and state-run collective farms as part of communism.
- 18. The deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of suppressing, destroying and eliminating that nation or group.
- 19. A government's plan of action and decisions about its official relations with other countries - "______ Policy".
- 20. The process of attempting to create or maintain peace in a region where there has been violent conflict.
- 23. Acts of cruelty and brutality that violate the accepted rules of war, such as the killing, torture, or inhuman treatment of prisoners, deliberately bombing a hospital or school, the use of child soldiers, or the use of chemical or biological weapons.